ridley303

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  1. I want to split my NAS in 2 with one going to my brother for his use and to do mutual off-site backups to. This is a bit too complex for me which is why I'm hoping someone with more experience can help me set up a transfer plan to do this as efficiently as possible. Hardware-wise I have enough stuff for 2 "new" complete PCs without having to tear down the old NAS. For HDDs, there are 2*6TB planned for parity + 2*4TB for data. On the old NAS there is 5*3TB (incl. parity) and ~8TB of data, roughly equally split 4 and 4 between my brother and I, so 1 parity + 1 data in the new systems should work. However I have no idea how to do the juggling with licenses and software setups to get everything where it belongs. I already set up 1 machine with a trial key, can I transfer the key from my old NAS to this machine? Or could I even just after the transfer of data is done, plug the old USB stick into the new machine and use it as normal even though for example the user configuration is completely different and it has a different number and sizes of drives? Added complexity: The reason I want to do the split now is that a few weeks ago after a parity check a drive on the old NAS got disabled. Having done an extended self test it has 0 read errors but 2 of the other drives have several. This is why I thought transferring the data away is the safest bet. However if someone wants to convince me to simply rebuild it onto itself I'll attach the diagnostics of that aswell. The issue of splitting it in 2 still remains though. stuxnas-diagnostics-20230226-1432.zip
  2. Thanks for your quick reply and the suggestion of using a bridge, that sounds like an even better idea 👍🏼
  3. In my new apartment I don't have the option of passing an ethernet cable through the walls. That leaves me with either using powerline or WiFi to connect my NAS to the network. I've seen posts that WiFi basically doesn't work with unraid but those have all been 2-3 years old. Is that still a thing? And I've seen posts on other forums that powerline is unreliable and insecure. Is that still a thing?
  4. The problem I'm facing is the same as described in the post below, however their solution (OpenJDK) is no longer in the community applications. I'm aware that there are minecraft specific dockers out there but I'd like to be able to install some small self made java programs aswell. Is there an alternative to OpenJDK in the community applications? I already searched for "java", "jdk" and "jre" but didn't find anything.
  5. Thanks a lot, this exactly what I was looking for! Follow up to Question 6 The feature of ZFS that I'm most interested in is that it handles checksums really well and can repair corrupted files using those checksums. Does the standard UnRaid config have a similar feature? So this is not about redundancy but read/write errors that could lead to a file not displaying properly.
  6. If the build works out, I'll build a second box at my brothers place and rsync the most important files for off site backup. It would be more convenient. Getting a notification that drive xy failed and replacing it directly takes less time. What is saved in the config? Would I have to for example reinstall dockers after an upgrade? What kind of expansion card is recommended to add more sata ports to a system?
  7. Disclaimer: I know enough about the topic that i realize I don't really know anything. So if one of the questions is stupid, please help me understand why. I'm currently using OMV with 5*3TB WD Reds in a Raid 5 (12TB usable). However I have had several problems with OMV over the years and want to switch to a more user friendly, reliable and easily maintainable solution. The biggest issue with my OMV install is that I don't feel comfortable upgrading to newer versions since that requires a wipe of the boot drive and I don't want to risk any of the data on the array. Because of that, it's still running on 2.2 (based on Debian 7) which hasn't seen security updates in years. Goals/Reasoning: One of my main goals is to never having to radically change the OS through any hardware changes like adding drives or upgrading the CPU. There's a lot of photos with sentimental value and I like knowing that there's a system that always knows where to find the data. The other goals are to use a mix of consumer and server hardware and to upgrade the storage as it is needed, prefferably one drive at a time. The reason I'm looking at UnRaid for this is because it's supposedly one of the most user friendly solutions and you can add and replace drives 'on the go' with little to no trouble. Also it supports dockers which I would exclusively use to add functionality (plex, openvpn etc.) to keep the OS itself clutter free and performant. Questions: 1. Can UnRaid be upgraded, not just from release to release but also in the future from v6 to v7 with the click of a button or preferrably automatically? 2. Does it make sense to spend extra on a SLC USB stick if the goal is to keep the same install? 3. According to the How-To on replacing a drive you can't hot swap drives, is that simply impossible or could it be a future feature? 4. Is there or will there be support for StoreMI for better and easier SSD 'caching' on AMD based systems? 5. I've heard many good things about ZFS. Do you lose the ability to easily add new drives if you use the ZFS plugin for UnRaid? 6. Speaking of ZFS, does UnRaid fix corrupted data if there are 2 parity disks or is ZFS strictly needed for this functionality? 7. Is there special hardware required to conect multiple HDDs to a system running UnRaid (LSI controllers, RAID cards etc.)?