Gwendolyn Parker

Hi All, With the energy prices getting higher and higher, I want to optimize my energy consumption. I would like to have one Unraid share synchronized with my Windows PC and only keep my Unraid server up for a couple of hours a day instead of 24/7. To avoid having duplicates of files across my shares, I figured out I might want to create a "Sync" share that would only contain symlinks to other folders so I can keep files I want permanent access to on my workstation. Would the following work using something like the below achieve the desired result. ln -s /mnt/user/Documents /mnt/user/SyncShare/Documents ln -s /mnt/user/Movies/ToBeWatched /mnt/user/SyncShare/Movies ln -s /mnt/user/Photos/Recent /mnt/user/SyncShare/ToDo If this is not workable, is there another way to achieve this ? Is there any risk involved with the usage of symlinks ? Is there something you think I should know before typing these commands ? Thank you !

I do. At least in part. My VR180-360° footage, the drives fill up faster than I can afford if I need to buy them double. I know HA is not backup, but IMO unraid offers the best compromise between risk and cost. I guess I'll end up buying more drives to build a second system.

Thanks ChatNoir. I investigated further but didn't find a solution yet. It will take time to figure out which device keeps spinning up the drives. I'm not the only one with the issue from what I can see. But it is likely a third party software indeed.

First of all a big thanks. I'm super happy I moved from Syno to a real and flexible NAS solution. You guys at limetech reduced my overall stress level caused by potential data loss quite much. I have a 96 TB Array I did set up using mostly 14TB Drives (2x 14TB Parity). My data is very diverse, and the vast majority of it doesn't need to be accessed frequently. (I didn't need to access some shares for more than 18 months). Truly ice cold storage. It is however irreplaceable data or data where so much work has been put in I'd likely have a seizure if anything happens to it. Hence the inclusion in some redundant system, ie. Unraid. The other part of the data I work daily with. Also mostly irreplaceable data mixed with a media library, TV shows and movies. With the insanely increase in price of energy, (and price in my country are in the world top 10) I wanted to optimize my costs. Spinning down arrays is not a solution since Windows clients keep polling the array too frequently to make it worth it. (Unless I missed something) My questions are as follows: Is it possible to have a second array that I would keep stopped and just start when needed ? (I'm confused with multiple pools vs multiple arrays) If the above is possible, how shall I proceed to "split" the array in 2. Keeping only 1 parity driver per array, then adding a 2nd parity disk to each? If not, is there a solution to keep the drives spun down for sure, despite Microsoft's invasive samba shares scanning eagerness ? Anything else you guys figured out to save $$$ on the energy bill ? Of course a second Unraid NAS is the obvious answer, but I don't have spare hardware for the moment and not enough cash either. Thank you !

Hyper-V kept switching itself on for some reason. Rather than tracking issue down, I just did set up the VM without it from start. Which seems best practice anyway. --- Kind of solved for me.

I second this seconded request

Okay. Trial and error'd it. Container is in Zulu UTC+0 Time zone. Let's see if it is truly Zulu and doesn't observe DST or not

Thank you for the Torrent IP check site. Config working properly it seems. Great performance of this docker. Somhow faster than BinHex's. Flags don't appear in the 'Country' column though. Weird. Someone ? Another question in the meanwhile. The scheduler gives me issues. I'm under the impression the docker doesn't inherit server time zone. There is an offset between the Server time and that of the docker. How could I check this ? Thank you.

Hello. First of all, thank you for the great container. I love it, setup was a breeze. I've two questions: - How can I check the VPN IP address the container got assigned with? (I get way too good performance with PIA and want to check it) - Is there a way to have country flags next to the IP addresses in the qBittorrent WebGUI? Thank you !

Same here. Could someone give a helping hand ? Thank you 🙂

I totally second this 🙂 - Could be quite lightweight and comes in handy - MC is okay, just not fancy at all (and sometimes risky)