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Hi, so I have an update. I found many posts with similar errors, but they were largely left without a solution so hopefully this helps someone else! I tried moving my script's cronjobs around and noticed the 'unlink_node: Assertion `node->nlookup > 1' failed' error appeared roughly around the same time, but when I moved it a few hours ahead of schedule and had nothing around the 3am mark, my shares stopped vanishing. I seeemed to have narrowed it down to the 'Recycle Bin' plugin. The Recycle Bin plugin was set to run it's cleanup and dump it's folder around 3am too.I believe since I'm moving and deleting a large amount of files right around the same area, things got wonky. Easiest solution for me was to just remove the Recycling Bin plugin altogether. I just never used it and I'd rather not schedule around it. It's been about 5 days now without shares vanishing so hopefully that was it!

Looks like that unmount with the IP address is my esxi backup script running nightly. Odd that it's causing issues as it's been running fine since I first spun up my unRaid box. I tried to manually run my daily backup scripts that mount/unmount mounts but the shares are still there. I do have a few backup scripts running simultaneously on different mounts so that could be the cause? I'll let it run again tonight to see if it causes any errors, I did also run a parity check last night with no errors. Any other suggestions where to look?

Well it happened again, all shares are gone from the shares tab and if I ssh into my Plex VM then try to cd into the unraid share, it says permission denied. When I ssh into the unraid box, and try to cd into /mnt/user it gives me an error Transport endpoint is not connected I have also attached another diagnostics file. Any help appreciated... it's getting really annoying now. nnvault-diagnostics-20201220-1007.zip

The only docker I use is a telegraph instance to track statistics with Graphana. Do you think that might be the cause? Just turn it off to test?

Hi, it happened again tonight while trying to access files from Plex. Here's the diagnostic files! nnvault-diagnostics-20201218-2211.zip

Hi, I already rebooted the server (to watch movies), so I'll try getting the Diagnostic file next time it happens. For now, here's the file after rebooting if it helps... nnvault-diagnostics-20201215-1905.zip

Hi, I'm running unRAID v 6.8.3. Every 2-3 days for the past week or two, my shares completely vanish until I reboot the server. For Plugins, I have Community Applications User Scripts Command Line Tool Dynamix Schedules Dyanmix SSD TRIM Dyanmix System Information Dyanmix System Statistics Dyanmix System Temperature Recycle Bin ssh Plugin The only thing I can remember before it happening was updating a couple of plugins. I don't exactly remember which as unRAID has been very stable so I didn't think much about it. Now it's become a major annoyance. I have to reboot the server every time I start to watch a movie and Plex tells me the file can't be found. Where can I find any logs, or diagnostics to narrow down what's happening? Thank you!

Hi, I run a full backup of all my servers, desktops, laptops, etc around the house weekly. It goes over my 250gb cache drive space, causing some backups to fail due to insufficient space. I guess unRAID can't direct writes to the array directly midway through writes. I have turned off cache for certain backups like Veeam so my cache drive doesn't reach max capacity, but the write speeds are slow! Could I add in another SSD in addition to the one I currently have in there to expand the pool capacity, or is the only option to buy a larger disk?

That's good advice, is setting it to non-correcting simply just unchecking 'Write corrections to parity' on the Main page?

On one of my VM's connecting to the unRAID server, a backup was halted when connecting to the SMB share because of the following error. cannot open directory '.': Stale file handle After a bit of digging, I found two possible answers. 1. Turn off NFS Hard Links I changed Settings > Global Share Settings > Tunable (support Hard Links): to No and Settings > NFS > Tunable (fuse_remember): -1 I did notice there was a warning about this setting potentially causing high RAM usage, but I only use it for one purpose and that is for ESXi ghettoVCB backups, so it shouldn't be a problem. I'll keep my eye on the memory just in case. I don't see how NFS Hard Links could affect SMB shares, but we'll see. 2. Using SMB v1.0 This would have to be a no for me, I do not want to be using an older version of SMB which is known to have security issues. Instead, I opted to try forcing SMB v2.0 - 3.0 Settings > SMB Settings > Enable NETBIOS: No I also changed the global SMB settings Settings > SMB Extras [global] client min protocol = SMB2 client max protocol = SMB3 I haven't gotten the Stale file handle for a day or two now, but going forward, would there be any other hints to avoid getting this error? It's real annoying because most of my automated backups are scripted to mount SMB shares, so my backups wouldn't work if the error continues. Also, would there be any logging features unRAID has I can turn on or check out to pass on to developers to check on the issue? I've got 16 days left on my unRAID trial and everything has been fantastic other than this. Thanks

Hi, I just installed this plugin and I'm glad to say it works just as advertised! Thank you for all the work.

Hi everyone, I've been holding my files in a 4 drive RAID5 setup on my r710 in a Debian VM as a NAS for years and backed everything up to a separate backup server. For the past couple of months, I ran out of space for media, so I got more picky about what shows and movies I downloaded. I've wanted a dedicated NAS server for a while and finally bit the bullet when someone locally was selling a Norco RPC-3216 case with all the hardware and they mentioned they previously ran unRAID on it. Prior to this, I only heard of unRAID here and there, I was actually wanting to build a FreeNAS server. I looked into unRAID a bit more and it actually looked to do exactly what I needed. It had parity (essential), worked with low spec hardware, had a neat cache feature, and best of all, I can use a random assortment of drives! My usage case is mainly reading off this NAS, so I didn't need much performance.. The specs on the server are Norco RPC-3216, 16 3.5" HDD Caddies, 3U Chassis Intel® Pentium® Processor G3258 (3M Cache, 3.20 GHz) 32GB - 4 x 8GB Corsair DDR3 CMX16GX3M2A1600C10 Gigabyte GA-B85M-D34 Motherboard 2 x Dell H310 IT Mode 16 TB - 4x2TB WD Red, 2x4TB WD Red, 1x8TB Parity Shucked WD, 250GB Samsung 850 evo It actually came with 2 SUPERMICRO AOC-SAS2LP-MV8's which the guy selling the server to me said ran unRAID without a problem for years, but I didn't want to take the risk on my data so I got 2 Dell H310's and flashed them to IT mode. Migrating took a while due to the time spent understanding how shares worked with SMB and NFS on unRAID. I probably reconfigured my SMB shares 3-4 times to get to a configuration I was happy with. I just have one main share, and the rest are manually configured in settings as I'm more familiar with that method. NFS threw me around for a bit because I didn't realize unRAID didn't support NFS v4.1, so I had to reconfigure a whole bunch my other servers to be able to communicate with unRAID. Then rewriting all the scripts I had on my VM's to backup data took another few days. After testing the server with a ton of transfers, pulling drives out to see how the array would be rebuilt, etc, I'm finally done! All in all, I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Parity works great when pulling out drives to rebuild, I love how unlike a 'real' RAID, if the array did break, I'd still be able to read files off the individual disks. Performance is quite good and it looks to be very stable. I will definitely be upgrading my trial to the Pro purchase after stress testing for a couple more days. Here's a link to the notes I took while building out the unRAID server Future plans I had in mind : I get another motherboard that supports 3 PCI-e lanes to get 10gig, I've been wanting to go 10gig in my internal network for a while. Get a lower wattage CPU since I have no plans to run any dockers or VM's on this machine and of course more storage when I need it. Thanks again to the community when I asked for help, everyone was very helpful!

Is auto-usb backups planned for 6.10? Sorry, I'm new to unRAID so I haven't kept up on news.

So I want to backup my USB, but it seems this plugin won't allow me to only backup the USB, it says Source must be specified. Thing is, I don't plan to run dockers or VM's on this unRAID server so I've deleted all of those shares so I don't have an Appdata share. Is there a way to only backup my USB (on a schedule)? Thanks!

Awesome, thanks!

From the reading I've done, the default shares, appdata, domains, isos, and system are only used for Docker and VM's. I've disabled Docker and VM's in Settings so would it be safe to delete those shares? I have no plans to use Docker and VM's, I have another server for that purpose, but lets say one day I do decide to want to run docker, is there an easy way to re-create those shares?

Great point, I thought I'd put it in the array and it if fails, the rest of them can rebuild it, but I forgot that other drives could fail before it and cause even more issues. 2TB just isn't worth it for the headaches it can cause. I'll run an extended pre-clear run on it, maybe 5 rounds and if nothing changes, it'll go in the backup server to backup the backups. Thanks for your input everyone.

I'm was in a similar situation as you, I have 16 bays and wanted to use a single PCI-E slot. I was looking at the LSI 9211-16i which can expand out to 16 drives. I was actually going to get 2x LSI 9211-8i, but ended up going with 2x Dell H310 cards and flashed them to IT mode. The LSI 9211-16i was ~$200 CAD, LSI 9211-8i's were around ~$50 each, and the Dell H310's I got for $30 each locally. Figured the $140 I saved, I could just get another motherboard that supported 3 PCI-E slots in the future when/if I needed it. Here's a nice video detailing the most common cards used.

Hi guys, I've had this drive in cold storage for years. Last I remember, this drive had issues with one of my motherboards and caused data corruption. I contacted Seagate and they sent me a brand new drive which still works today. That being said, I never really checked it after that and found it in an old box. I popped it in and it had a lot of SMART data errors, but it's overall-health is marked as PASS. It's a Seagate ST2000DM001-1CH164 drive, just wanted the community's opinion to see if it's safe to use?

On my previous setup with Debian acting as a NAS, I had my whole drive on a NFS share for me to use, then I had folder inside that specific VM's in my environment could access to backup files. I had full access to 'n1' on my personal laptop, but the servers would only be able to write to certain folders. Basically I want one main share to be able to access everything. Is there a way to do this on unRAID? Edit : I found in SMB Extras, I can use the regular SMB configs I'm used to, so I just need it for NFS.

So following a few guides, it seems unraid isn't really designed to be worked with the CLI, just the webUI. That's fine with me, I just like access to the CLI for manual tweaking as I'm a Linux user. It seems the SSH plugin was what was causing the problem. I uninstalled it, deleted the /config/ssh folder, changed the password and it worked. I still wanted SSH access and my end goal was a SSH-key access, so I reinstalled SSH plugin and revoked access to SSH after following a guide to allow SSH-keys. Quite a few workarounds, but everything is working smoothly now. I'm familiar with having to run scripts to get persistent setups, reminds me of ESXi. Thanks all!

I can't seem to access my unRAID system through SSH after changing the root user password in the webUI. I can login the webUI just fine with the password, but SSH simply doesn't work. In the webUI terminal, I ran passwd root to change the root password, but I still can't access the box from another computer.. Any ideas? I initially used a password manager generated password with special characters, but hearing that it causes problems, I switched it to just letters and numbers.

Thanks for the help, this community seems great already. I got the BIOS menu running on both of my H310 cards.

Hopefully flashing cards falls under general unRAID support. My apologies if this is in the wrong area to ask. I bought two Dell H310 cards, one was stock with Dell's default firmware on it and the other one, the guy said he had already flashed it to IT mode. I used this tutorial to flash the card with the default firmware and everything went pretty smooth other than a few UEFI issues. When I had it with the stock dell firmware, there was a bootmenu for the card, but after flashing it to IT mode there's no boot menu. I believe I did it properly as I can see the bare drives CLI with a blkid command. With that, I pop out the card out and add the other card already flashed into IT mode to check it and unlike the other card, it has a boot menu so I went in to check it out. It's kinda nice, shows information on the drives, which slot it's in, ability to turn off/on smart data, etc. Useful information. I tried contacting the guy to get details on what he flashed it to and I'm waiting on a reply, but I wanted to ask the community if they knew what he flashed it as? On the main menu on top it says "LSI Corp Config Utility For Dell SAS Ctlr v7.11.10.00 (2011.06.02)" Digging into the menu, I found a bit more details. Adapter - SAS9211-8i MPT Firmware Revision 20.00.07.00-IT NVDATA Version 14.01.00.08 Any help appreciated, I would want to have my other card flashed to the same or similar firmware so I can check on the drives during boot time. Thanks!

I live in Canada and have dealt with international purchases for years as there are usually no local sellers. As a buyer, eBay has an easy process if items aren't as they described, I just file a claim and it has always worked for me. I've had more problems with items coming in from USA than China. With purchases from China, it's free shipping and no duties. With purchases from USA, I have to pay higher prices, shipping fees, and duties fees. As an example, for 2 9201-8i's from China is $55CAD each, total of $110. If I got it from USA, its still $55, but tack on a $15 shipping fee, and $13 per item duty fee and it becomes +$40 more. There are places I would rather buy from when there is customer service involved, eBay isn't that place for me. If you do happen to know a store in Canada selling them, I'll gladly look into it!