zephyr.1.2020

Hope it gets worked out. I assumed my config was breaking due to my customizations over the years. So starting over from a fresh install seams to have been it for me.

Sorry for the delay in responding @andreidelait I ended up starting over from scratch pretty much. I changed the port numbers for the original docker containers(mariadb, nextcloud, swag) and started over with the most recent nextcloud video from Space Invader One. This time, instead of using Duck DNS, I decided to buy a domain name off of name cheap($10/year ish) and try again. This time it seams to be working. Once past the initial install, I copied over the original data from the Nextcloud1 share into the Nextcloud2 share. Once the files were transferred, I had nextcloud rescan them by running "occ files:scan --all" That's gotten me going again with a basic install. Still have a few things to tweak, mainly getting it able to upload and download larger files. But if memory serves, I had these same issues with the last time I set it up and was able to find a solution so I'm sure it will get figured out eventually. I would like to be able to get document editing figured out but still no luck with that.

How is that going for you? I've not tried it yet my self but am considering it or a VM route. There are so many ways to do it, it's a bit overwhelming haha. My initial attempts at a VM failed, but may be worth giving it another go this afternoon.

Still no luck. Added .conf to the nextcloud file name. Rebooting both swag and nextcloud got me back into the nextcloud interface for a wile. Poked around some random files I've not accessed in a while, could use them as normal. Phone app said unrecognized server name.....So I decided to reset it's config from scratch. Error came back with that but I then remembered having an issue with the phone communicating over the LAN to the server, so dropped to LTE and the error went away and I could access random files. But about 5 minutes into it, the original issue came back. CPU usage racked up to about 70%-80% and lost all control of nextcloud and unraid's ui. Any help is greatly appreciated!

@andreidelait are you talking about the config file located at /user/appdata/swag/nginx/site-configs? I have 3 files in this directory. default.conf, nextcloud, and default.conf.sample. I changed nextcloud to nextcloud.conf and no luck. Were you talking about a different file?

Ah. didn't think to try to send it twice. that is good to know.

Over this last few weeks, something is causing Unraid's webui to hang and the only way I've been able to get it back is force a reboot with the power switch. I think it could be caused by a broken config in nextcloud because I can recreate the issue when I navigate to nextcloud's webui, and search for an update. Shortly after launching everything just goes in limbo. I tried stopping the following dockers when this happens and it fails. Nextcloud, Swag, Plex. But I could stop sonarr......I just forced a reboot and captured the diagnostics. If I need to capture while the error is happening, please instruct me on how to do that. I do have SSH ability while it's hung but trying to force a reboot over ssh didn't work(or I was too impatient) so I don't know if that's working correctly when this happens either. Thanks in advance for the help! zephyr-1-diagnostics-20220930-0635.zip

I've been using Rsync running on my backup Unraid server to pull files from my home Unraid server for an offsite backup. I mount the root SMB share on home server over a tailscale vpn with a script, a second script triggers a list of rsync operations to run, backing up the files, then unmounts the share. For the longest I thought this was a rock solid backup strategy then I realized some media files weren't backing up. After some trial and error, I was able to narrow it down to only media files with 'special' characters in the name that wouldn't be transferred. For example: it doesn't like the é in Pokémon Detective Pikachu but Pokemon Detective Pikachu is fine, it doesn't like the dots and ? in What if...? but if the folder/file is named What if it all works. I was hoping I could use Sonarr/Radarr to name these different to avoid it at the source but no luck. Then I was hoping something could be added to the rsync syntax since I found a few forums mention something about iconv but I've not been able to get that working either. Any help will be tremendously appreciated. If you know of another easy way to schedule routine backups, I'm all ears! Thanks in advance.

That led me to the solution. Instead of being on the landing page after logging in, the setting I needed was on the individual tv show itself. I dove into using plex's live TV/DVR option a month or so ago and I thought the option to keep only x number of unwatched shows deleted what was recorded, apparently it deleted the previous files I imported and had already watched as well. Good to know. Thanks for all the help Jonathan!

Update: I've been able to confirm that Plex is somehow the culprit. When I add a season folder, then force it to run it's scheduled tasks, it deletes them. I see under the alerts section of plex that it deletes the media. I disabled all scheduled tasks that could cause deletion. Unchecked the options to empty trash after each scan, and the one that allows media deletion. But when I force it to run scheduled tasks, it still deletes the media.... Any ideas? Would making plex read only solve the issue? if so, how would I go about doing that?

I will try that and report. Thanks!

Well I think I can rule out issues with the disk. I used the unbalanced plugin to move all of the show to a newer disk, confirmed that the files were written to the new disk and were playable. Checked this morning and all but the current season was deleted again. Any ideas?

Correct. I first noticed something odd when I was running a rsync to my backup server and it flagged a warning that some files vanished. I'm fairly sure I had the TV share set to fill up each disk. So it stands to reason each time I would write the show back, it would go to the same disk. Does this seam logical that it could be a hardware issue?

Is this what you're referring too?

Here's my syslogzephyr-1-diagnostics-20211207-0900.zip

I don't know how deep my issue goes, but at some point in the past, I had all of the seasons of Dr. Who 2005 in my TV Show share. Scrolled through Plex one day and noticed all but the current season was MIA. I thought I may of goofed up some where so I restored the missing files from a backup. A day later they were gone again. I thought Sonarr or Deluge might be doing something funky, so after I restored the files and used Sonarr to name them correctly, I stopped these two containers and waited. The next day they were gone again. I'm currently testing to see if it is something wrong with the hard drives they were being wrote to, so I used the unbalance plugin to move them to a different drive to see if that could be the issue. I've not experienced hard drive failure yet, but wouldn't SMART normally give some warnings? I looked through SMART on the drives the files were scattered on and both passed. Any help will be greatly appreciated! I've not had a need to ask for help here much so if I did something wrong, or need to include more, please educate me.

I'm wanting to setup a second unraid server to be an offsite backup of my main unraid server and am looking for some help on the best way to do this. I can get a wireguard connection from the backup server to my home server and can add a remote smb share from the home server to the backup, but don't know what would be the best way to automate things so I can encrypt the files and program it to keep so many versions of each share. My initial thoughts were to use Duplicati similar to Spaceinvader One's video on the remote server to pull data from the home server. This may still be the best way, but I've read some other posts on here that Duplicati wasn't reliable so I'd like to know if there's something better out there. Thanks in advance!

That seems to of done the trick. Greatly appreciate the help!

I need big flashing lights saying 'this part stupid' lol. All this is way over my head so again, thanks for the patience! I saved copies of the xml that worked and then variations that I botched up. Do I just need to replace the part you quoted with the following? <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-3.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader> <nvram>/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd</nvram> </os>

Thanks for the reply! Are you referring to the post that's talking about changing the last few lines that disappear after any change is made to the template, then reading them along with the OSK key? If so, I think I followed that. There is still a good chance due to the lack of my experience I may be misunderstanding something. When I first got it to work, I stopped the VM, copied line 136 down to the end, made the changed in the template to add RAM and more CPU cores, then pasted the text in my clipboard at the bottom. Is there a step I missed? Thanks for the patience! Very much new to all of this.

First off.... thanks for all of the incredible resources and tutorials you've created. Your videos are what convinced me Unraid was the way to go for my needs. I'm new to VMs and followed the instructions in the video verbatim but am still having some issues. Everything works as expected until I try to edit the XML so I can add CPUs and RAM. As far as I'm aware, I've followed the instructions perfectly but when I try to launch the VM, this is all that I can see when I launch the VNC remote. 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<master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:60:cc:a8'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='e1000-82545em'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' 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