[[Plugin] CA Appdata Backup / Restore v2.5]

thank you for this great plugin!

 

currently the process is:

-) stop all the containers

-) backup all the containers

-) start all the containers

 

I let the plugin create individual zip-files for each container

 

wouldn't it be better to change the process like this in such a case:

 

-) stop the first container

-) backup the first container

-) start the first container

-) stop the second container

-) backup the second container

-) start the second container 

etc.

 

this would greatly reduce the downtime for each container 

[Network scan like FING]

did you ever find something? I'm getting tired of Fing and looking for a replacement as well

[best practice for a LAMP environment]

Hi!
 

I'm fairly new to the unraid community, I built my first unraid machine and purchased a license just about two weeks ago. Since then I'm wondering what's the best practice to set up a LAMP enviroment with Unraid.

 

My first guess was to set up an Ubuntu VM and install apache, php and mysql. This worked well but I'm struggeling to find a good way to set up the webserver root (htdocs-directory). What I would like to to is to use a Unraid share inside the VM so I don't have to set up and manage another samba configuration inside the VM. First I tried to set up a mount tag and mount a 9p file system inside the VM. By raising the msize in the fstab mount I'm getting a reasonable performance (it was quite bad with the default msize). But I noticed that Apache doesn't update a file until I read the file inside the VM over the console (e.g. with the midnight commander editor). Until that Apache always seems to get a cached version of the file. I found two apache settings:

 

EnableSendfile Off

EnableMMAP Off

 

After adding this into apache.conf I need to reload twice to get the latest version of a file. So still not perfect.

 

I tried to mount the htdocs-directory over smb but I just got very weird results (Apache offering random files for download instead of serving them, files appearing and dissapearing randomly for Apache etc.).

 

I finally set up another samba service inside the VM, but I don't like to manage two different samba configurations, creating another backup etc.

 

What's your solution for your LAMP environment?

 

Cheers

 

MJFox

[Unraid VM shares?]

so what is the best alternative to mount a (share-)folder from the host into the VM if you want to avoid 9p? I tried to mount the share over SMB and over NFS and set an apache web root to the mounted folder and I got very weird problems like the files disappearing and re-appearing randomly, apache offering the files for download instead of serving them, apache didn't see the latest version of a file until I opened the file on the VM-console etc.

[HDD Auto spinup on Plex container activity]

thank you very much for this great script, it works very well! 👍

[[Plugin] CA User Scripts]

2 hours ago, Cessquill said:

Hopefully somebody else can answer your actual question, but as a side thought you could replace...

        mdcmd spinup 0    
        mdcmd spinup 1    
        mdcmd spinup 2

...with...

disks=$(ls /dev/md* | sed "sX/dev/mdXX");
for disknum in $disks; do
    /usr/local/sbin/mdcmd spinup $disknum;
done

I currently run this on a CRON schedule every 10 minutes between 19:00 and 23:00 to speed up Plex.  I'd therefore be interested in your question too, as it's more useful.

thanks for your suggestion

 

I just tried and tested my script and it works well in the background, I just changed "tail -F " to "tail -n 1 -F " so my script only checks the last line of the log-file

 

give it a try

 

Cheers

 

MJFox

 

 

[[Plugin] CA User Scripts]

Hi!
 

Great little plugin, thanks a lot.

 

I have a question though: I want to start a script that runs in background after the disk array starts.

 

This is the content of the script:

 

#!/bin/bash
tail -F "/mnt/cache/appdata/plex/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Logs/Plex Media Server.log" | \
while read line ; do
        echo "$line" | grep "authenticated user"
        if [ $? = 0 ]
        then    
        mdcmd spinup 0    
        mdcmd spinup 1    
        mdcmd spinup 2    
        sleep 30
        fi
done

what it does is it spins up the disks whenever somebody opens plex

 

obviously I want to keep the script running in the background when unraid boots up... is it ok to just start the script with the "At Startup of Array"- option? will it keep running in the background then?

 

thanks

 

MJFox