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I would it is time to update the minimum requirement for unRAID v6 to be 2GB?

There is not really an OK number - just that the number stays stable. If it keeps increasing then that is a typical sign of a disk that might fail in the near future. Having said that I would be worried about any disk where the number is not in single figures even though technically a disk typically has thousands of spare sectors that can be used for reallocation.

Yes - simply enter the address of the one you want to use. As long as they are all on the same LAN this should work fine.

The dyndns feature is aimed at keeping your networks external IP address synchronised with a domain name (your ISP can arbitrarily change the external address unless you explicitly pay to have a fixed address). As such it is independent of the incoming VPN other than to allow a constant network name to be used when connecting externally). The VPN feature applies after (using the dyndns address) you have tunnelled into your home network. At that point you can see anything on your home network that is visible to the VPN server on your home network. You now use addresses on your local LAN to access such devices. it is important to realise that these are two independent services that are typically used to solve two different problems you encounter when trying to set up external access. the dyndns service gives you a consistent network name that can be used externally to refer to your home system the VPN service allows you to securely tunnel into your home network so you have the same capabilities as when you are locally attached to your home network.

How do you see the files from your Android device when it is locally connected? You should do the same thing with the VPN active. Presumably you run sort of File Manager app on the Android device.

You access them just as if you were locally connected to your LAN. With a VPN connection active you are emulating being locally connected.

If you click on the orange icon in the Dashboard page there is an option to acknowledge the value there.

You CAN use the array while a disk is being rebuilt as the missing disk is emulated by the combination of the other disks plus parity. However you will notice performance degradation - the amount being dependant on your hardware. Many users prefer to not use the array while a disk is being rebuilt but that is a personal preference and not mandated by unRAID.

Any top level folder is automatically a share whether you create it via the GUI or not. If the files are not in a folder then mover will leave them alone anyway.

Thanks for that information - it explains why there is no such option. I think I will have to continue to use a ‘stop’ file then. I have some actions that I do not necessarily want to happen when the array stops if the system is then not going to shutdown. Maybe I should be requesting that unRAID introduces a shutdown event?

I was wondering if a new scheduling option can be added to run a script on system shutdown? At the moment I do by a config/stop script but it would be nice to move this to something I can maintain via the GUI.

Where did you put the key? It needs to be in the ‘config’ folder on the USB drive.

I thought of that, but each script is in its own folder which makes that approach a bit unwieldy

I have a feature request as well. I am looking at an easy way to have a script available both via the plugin and from the command line. One way I though of achieving this would be to set up a symbolic link under /usr/local/bin that pointed to the script file on the flash. I could do this myself in the current implementation by running the appropriate commands on each boot of the system, but it would be neater if the plugin did this on my behalf. I cannot think of any obvious downsides (but I may have missed something). Another option might be to allow the plugin to point to an external script file on the flash, but this seems more of an effort to implement and provide no obvious benefits over the approach outlined above.

If you want to be able to RDP into the Windows 10 VM you also need to make sure you have selected a 'bridged' connection when specifying the network settings for the VM so that it is visible on the local LAN. Regarding not having sound when using VNC this is probably because there is no sound hardware specified in the VM configuration? You can specify a virtual sound card by editing the XML of the VM and adding an entry of the form: <sound model='ac97'> </sound> This would also be required to get sound via RDP.

The script I linked to has an option to check if files that have duplicate names also have duplicate contents. It slows down generating the duplicate list somewhat as for those files that match on file names it then first checks if their sizes are the same (which is fast) and if they are then it does a binary compare as well to validate if their contents are equal. If the copies are different this is then indicated. Finding duplicates for files which have different file file names but identical contents is possible using other tools but will take much longer time unless you already have file hashes generated. However I got the impression that in this case we were looking at the case of the same filename occurring on multiple disks (probably as a side-effect of a small misstep when re-organising data on the drives).

If you have a lot of duplicates then you may find it easier to get the list of duplicate files using the UnRAIDFindDuplicates script I created some years ago when I managed to create a lot of duplicates when re-organising my disks. I know you said you preferred not to use a script but if there are a lot of files this can be a fast way to get a list of them.

The only way you can get duplicate files is if you work at the disk level (/mnt/diskX or /mnt/cache). Working at that level bypasses the User Share Level and so means you can create duplicates. If you work purely at the User Share Level you will not get duplicate files (defining duplicates in this case as files with the same path on different drives). If duplicate files do end up being created it is almost universally caused by users moving files between drives and making some sort of error during the process. As an example this can easily be caused by copying files from one disk to another leaving the originals behind rather than moving them.

I do not see how unRAID itself would create duplicate files in normal use. In my experience this is always caused by the user manually copying files between drives. Do you have a scenario where unRAID itself manages to do this? As has been mentioned there are various user-supplied solutions to this problem. How easy they are to use depends on whether you are looking for files with identical paths but on different disks, or whether you are looking for files where the paths differ but the contents are identical.

@digitalfixerIf you are running any sort of adblocker, have you made sure that the unRAID server has been whitelisted? Adblockers are notorious for interfering with the correct functioning of the unRAID GUI.

If your VMs shutdown tidily when unRAID stops the array does then you do not need to do anything, just make unRAID manage the UPS and run through a normal unRAID shutdown if the UPS triggers it.

It is worth pointing out that you cannot get read speeds much above 100 MB/s as at that speed you are saturating your LAN. There are those who have gone to 10Gb Ethernet to up speeds but that is a significant hardware investment and can take a bit of filddling to get your network set up correctly to exploit such hardware.

It is worth pointing out that this technically a ‘Clear’ and not a ‘preclear’. The ‘clear only happens at the time you add the disk to the array and thus the‘ Clear’ is part of the adding process. Preclear is something you do before you attempt to add the drive to the array. Also ‘Clear’ merely writes zeroes to the drive whereas the ‘preclear’ adds read phases before and after the write zeroes phase which does a more thorough test of the drive.

I think that if you changed the second phase to start with a ‘cd’ like in the first phase it will give you the results you want.

OK, but in that case is the plugin capable of using SSL?