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most probably your bios got reset and you need to setup properly the USB boot mode in it. not every USB drive can act as disk and it depends on the bios settings as well so check your bios for USB and legacy USB and boot USB settings

to speed it up a little bit you can 1. disable SMB signing if you do not care about your network security much at home. run these commands in terminal sudo -s echo "[default]" >> /etc/nsmb.conf echo signing_required=no >> /etc/nsmb.conf exit Check if SMB signing is disabled on your share after you remount the SMB volume: smbutil statshares -a This variable should not show up after you have disabled SMB signing. SIGNING_ON TRUE source 2. Speed up browsing on network shares To speed up SMB file browsing, you can prevent macOS from reading .DS_Store files on SMB shares. This makes the Finder use only basic information to immediately display each folder's contents in alphanumeric order. Use this Terminal command: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE Then log out of your macOS account and log back in. To reenable sorting, use this command: defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool FALSE source 3. disable throttling sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0 This command prevents Time Machine’s backup process assuming a low CPU priority this command is forgotten when you reboot. If you want it to stick around when you reboot, you’ll need to add a launch-time script, as follows. sudo nano /Library/LaunchDaemons/nothrottle.plist Copy and paste in the following chunk of code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version="1.0"> <dict> <key>Label</key> <string>nothrottle</string> <key>ProgramArguments</key> <array> <string>/usr/sbin/sysctl</string> <string>debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0</string> </array> <key>RunAtLoad</key> <true/> </dict> </plist> In the Terminal window, tap the Ctrl+O keyboard shortcut (that’s Ctrl, not Cmd!) and then hit Enter. Then tap Ctrl+X. In the Terminal window, paste in the following single line sudo chown root /Library/LaunchDaemons/nothrottle.plist;sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/nothrottle.plist Should in future you want to turn off this new command, type the following, which again is a single line: sudo launchctl unload -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/nothrottle.plist and reboot. this is at the moment maximum you can do to speedup the timemachine backup.

hi ken-ji thanks for the docker image. could you please summarize 1. what needs to be done so that the synced dropbox data can be shared over SMB ? 2. what needs to be done to allow autostart after unraid restart or array restart?