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Well the only time i would need to make use of a backup is, if one of my drives failed. touch wood this has never happened yet, probably because the Seagate Ironwolf drives i use have been replaced over time as i needed more capacity 4TB to 8TB to 12TB. Each time as i slotted in the bigger drive the parity did its thing and rebuilt the data perfectly. So works for my needs. Admittedly in the case of an accidental deletion, it wouldn't help if i only noticed after a parity check.

Transcoding is done on an SSD, a GPU would definitely make a difference as it would if i converted something using Handbrake. The HP server is old tech now and i need an upgrade anyway so maybe something with a GPU could be considered.

I was looking at the 6-Bay UGREEN NASync DXP6800 Pro But reading up i wasn't sure if it would work with Unraid. The main problem with Synology boxes is their backup is the same as your storage. So if like me you have 32 TB of data it take 32TB to back up. With Unraid i just have a 12TB parity set for month back ups and forget about it, i love that about Unraid. I do like their smaller low wattage boxes that run quietly though. My current server can be heard all over the house when its serving data its so noisy, i was thinking about moving it to the garage. Maybe UGreen or Terramaster have the low power and noise with the Unraid benefit.

I've been running a HP proliant G7 DL165 server for many years mostly with Unrain on it and although it's been used for my things its main day to day use has been as a Plex server for friends and family. Its common that i get 3 or 4 people streaming at a time and truth be told the server has been struggling for some time. Years back films would be small files and as quality got better the files are bigger and a few people log in using Playstations with cause the server to transcode the video most of the time the fans spin up and it sounds like an helicopter is in the house (some on here will relate lol) So my question is what do i replace it with. I was looking at the Synology stuff but that would mean moving away from Unraid and re formatting the 4HDD i have in my current setup. I'm a little out of touch with how NAS servers have progressed, what are peoples recommendations these days for a 4-6 bay NAS with good Unraid performance.

@WN1X thanks to you i looked at the download history in Chrome. I could see this.... I clicked the 3 dots Download insecure file.... BOOM its in downloads completed 👍 Hope this helps someone else at a later date.

Hi everyone, I've not been able to upgrade the Unraid OS for a while, the flash USB is too small. The USB i stupidly used was a 2GB stick, and ive got away with until recently. I've just ordered a 32GB USB3 sandisk stick to replace it with. So before Amazon deliver that tomorrow i thought id grab a backup of the current one ready. i click on the backup button and it says backing up, after a few minutes it stops... in my download folder i have a Unconfirmed 835970.crdownload file i've tried several times now its always the same? Like i say i will be using this to restore to the new stick tomorrow, and then i can upgrade my OS

Update: I noticed there was a new unraid OS to upgrade too, since i did this 2 weeks ago all has been fine? so it was either a bug with the last OS or a coincidence and by upgrading its overwritten some bad data. Fingers crossed its been running great since.

in the last 2 weeks i've been woken twice to my server (HP Proliant) fans screaming away. i opened my laptop to login to the GUI and cannot login in... its like Unraid is offline. with no other option i've had to pull the plug on the server. After reboot it gives the unclean shutdown as you would expect and starts a parity check. no new software has been installed in this time and i am at a loss to what causes this? After the first time i put it down to computers misbehaving as they sometimes do, but a second time has me worried, anyone got an idea or something i can check?

So all was working well. and i decided to add a cach drive, so bought a SSD for this purpose. All worked fine for a while... about 6 months When i log in now i regularly see these sector errors, it started with 1 or 2 but its getting more, its now 13 (unlucky for some) i have my appdata primary storage as the cache same with downloads then moved to array after download and unpacking etc whats my options Do i change appdata and downloads back to array. unmount and format the cache drive and re mount or something else? obviously if it persists i will have to get a new SSD and bin this thing lol

I have installed Lidarr on my docker. to start with no problems. Then when i checked Appdata folder for Lidarr it has a folder called "MediaCover" with all the artwork for albums etc. i dont want this filling up my appdata i would prefer it on the array inside my music folder when i do this Lidarr breaks... losing all setting etc. Why the artwork isnt stored inside the folder for the album is beyond me? as it stands Data Dir: = /mnt/cache/appdata/lidarr Music: = /mnt/user/Music/ Downloads: = /mnt/user/Downloads/ is there a workaround?

This fixed the problem Many thanks JorgeB 👍

I have run NEW CONFIG and now waiting for the parity rebuild. Its gonna take a while I didnt check "parity is already valid" as i figured i need to do a parity run anyway, its been a month!

Upgraded to v6.11.5, still the same When i log in after boot i still see this.

diagnostics attached titan-diagnostics-20230501-1118.zip

My Server has been running without problem for over a year. a parity drive and 3 storage HDD I decided this week to add a cache drive and bought a 512gb SSD I installed it and formatted it, used MOVER and moved appdata and docker etc all went well. I shut the server down and re booted, normally after about 4-5mins the array is online. This wasn't working so i logged in and array was offline The cache drive tried to add itself as Disk 4 in the array? I clicked disk 4 and chose unassigned, then automatically the cache drive appear in Pool as cache again? Start the array manually all ok. Unless i reboot the server and then its offline again Anybody got an idea why it wont remember to just startup as a cache drive in pool?

My server is now on version 1.19.1 all those using PS4 can log in again, 1 person is on Xbox and cant. He says his client version on Xbox is 1.19.5 so wont let him join Any ideas?

Got Syncthing on both server, working well. just tried downloading a file and it instantly synced nice one 👍

Because the server that runs 24 hrs a day uses 10w the main server uses 500 to 600w The 10w server only has a single drive in it (4tb) but is perfect to leave running during the night and day when im at work downloading and giving me access to my local network remotely While the mains server running unraid has 16TB and is obviously more powerful for when im at home. Ive been using the sync tool on Krusader which works great but has to be manually set off. Thanks Aran i will try syncthing

I have my main unraid server with my plex server on that is auto on and off from 4:30pm to 2am and another server thats on 24hrs a day and has Sonarr and Radarr on. Is there an auto way that when my main server comes on at 4.30pm it notices new files and transfers them over the network to the plex folders?

The biggest app i have is Tdarr, which i only installed today, and havent used yet. Sabnzbd downloads to a shared download folder then moved to another shared folder. Name Container Writable Log --------------------------------------------------------------------- tdarr 3.37 GB 1.16 GB 15.8 kB binhex-krusader 1.92 GB 35.6 MB 477 kB H265ize 1.82 GB 0 B 14.9 MB binhex-delugevpn 1.30 GB 2.85 MB 115 kB binhex-sonarr 1.18 GB 46.6 MB 7.65 MB binhex-minecraftbedrockserver 1.14 GB 279 MB 201 kB binhex-radarr 968 MB 154 MB 6.14 MB binhex-radarr-4K 968 MB 154 MB 2.20 MB binhex-sabnzbd 941 MB 33.5 MB 15.3 MB Nextcloud 882 MB 2 B 13.3 kB Plex-Media-Server 633 MB 674 kB 96.0 kB binhex-phantom 605 MB 0 B 14.9 MB FileBot 491 MB 28.2 kB 373 kB MariaDB-Official 414 MB 2 B 384 kB MKVToolNix 399 MB 24.7 kB 132 kB ombi 330 MB 350 kB 1.58 MB HandBrake 327 MB 2.67 MB 28.2 kB vaultwarden 187 MB 0 B 5.95 kB MinecraftBedrockEdition 119 MB 345 kB 319 kB adminer 90.6 MB 12.1 kB 162 kB NoIp 16.1 MB 5.45 kB 9.10 MB --------------------------------------------------------------------- Total size 18.1 GB 1.87 GB 74.1 MB

I have a yellow warning popping up with the warning "Docker high image disk utilization of 76%" Clicking on container size it says a total of 18.1 GB so dividing 18.1 by 76 multiplied by 100 means i have a container size of 23.8 GB Is there a way to increase this or am i better off adding a container?

First of all, thanks for a great server app. Ive been running this server for a while now and the kids and mates love it. As i couldnt get your backup working (i created a backup folder but it remains empty), i just used" Backup/Restore Appdata" to back up at 1am each day, then using "User Scripts" the server shuts down at 2am. Alexa uses a skill called wake on lan to wake the server at 4pm each day as a routine My question is, how can i send an automated message before server shutdown to let users know they have 10 minutes etc. Im assuming its possible with "User Scripts" but i dont know how?

Thanks for all your help everyone lol Update and solution for the benefit of anyone searching for answers. Get the person who is NOT on the local network ie connecting remotely to download an app on their phone called "Bedrocktogether" Tell them your external IP address to your home/router and the port number your minecraft server is using. (make sure the port is forwarded on your router) When they click connect it will play a 30 second advert after which they can keep the app running but close the screen on their phone. Go onto their Xbox/Playstation and look and friends and scroll to the bottom and they will see a "BedrockTogether" game........connect Job done. Its a workaround and seem like an hassle but it works flawlessly. My son and his friend are happy as the proverbial pig in ####

I setup the Minecraft docker by ich777 and me and my son on separate Ps4's managed to join a world and all was working great. today he told his friend about it and he wants to join on his PS4 remotely. And that's where the fun began. I've forwarded the port on my router and he cant see the game. there doesn't seem to be a option to add server on the PS4 so manually putting our external IP address isn't going to work. As anybody had any joy doing this?

Hi Banterer, I did the same as you. I had a Synology with a single drive in it full of good stuff. I bought a second hand server from a friend and then new hard drives and installed Unraid. once it was installed and working, i connected to the synology remotely and used an app on unraid called Krusader to transfer data. I was surprised at the transfer speed to be honest, i transferred about a 1.5TB each night after work for a few nights, i could have moved more to be honest but wasnt in a rush as i was playing with Unraid and learning how it works, and installing plugins and apps ready. i didn't send data all over in one go as i wanted to keep an eye on it for any errors.... the synology had reported bad sectors on the old drive, so i expected it to drop out at some point. i watched TV while i kept glancing over at the monitor. i dragged and dropped choosing to move rather than copy, it wasn't long before the old drive was empty.