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I have one computer with all its bays full of hard drives and I still need more storage space. I also have an unused computer and unused unraid license. Is there was a way of setting that up and linking/mapping/associating the storage on the new computer so the dockers on the first computer think they're just part of the same system. Thanks

I'm running Unraid 6.12.13 and there is an app that I'd like to install but its max OS version is 6.12.10. After reviewing the changes to each OS version I'd like to remain on the latest OS version and still install the app. Given the nature of the app I think the only issue is the later OS versions weren't available by the time of their last app update. One thing I could do is contacting the app developer to request they update the max OS version of their app or be patient and hope they update it on their own. However, there could be cases where an app develop is not able or willing to update this setting. Not just for my specific use case, but for general reference, is there a way to personally be comfortable with potential version control issues and force the installation of incompatible apps?

I figured out how I could do it! Unfortunately I realized my backup was of something else (my NVME pool onto my array as it has dual parity). I do not have any backups of my USB drive and will be searching the forums on how to go from here on that. If anyone else comes across this post, here's how I did it. With a new thumbdrive I made a fresh unraid install and set it up as a trial account. I then had to install community applications and the Unassigned Devices application. To do that step I had to add assign a disk to the array and start the array. I didn't want to do that to one of my existing hard drives, but luckily I had an empty hard drive I connected just for that. The the array started on just that one drive, and with Unassigned Devices installed, I was able to individually mount each existing drive as read only to access my files.

There were two NVMEs mirroring each other.

I found my server no longer working and have isolated the problem to the os thumbdrive failing. The computer has since been rebooted so nothing is accessible in RAM. The thumdrive has been inserted in various computers and nothing even sees the thumdrive, even in disk management. Not to worry, I made a backup. But on my NVME pool drive on the server. I know this was stupid, I just thought it would be trivial to access if the thumbdrive failed. I set the original thumdrive aside, reformatted a new one with raid, and started a 30 day trial. Beyond setting a password, I have not done anything else with this new configuration. Is it possible for me to access files from the nvme drive without making any changes to the existing but unaccessible array and pool?

Awesome, thank you! I've enabled syslog server mirroring to my array to be able to look at it if it happens again. Is mirroring to the array acceptable, or is it much better to mirror to the flash drive? Also, as I was typing up the post, it made me suspect maybe the computer was having issues going into and recovering from sleep mode. I also have an AMD server and I know I needed to make some BIOS changes for that given a bug AMD had. Since I have an Intel processor and motherboard, are there any known sleep issues or unraid settings I should preemptivly take a look at?

I can leave my computer alone for long spans of time and everything is fine, but other times it stops working. The computer remains powered but I can't log into the web interface. I have to turn the computer off and back on. When it's back on I don't see, and can't find any errors. Any ideas on what might cause this and where I can look to see what happened? My motherboard is an ASRock Industrial IMB-1314 and my CPU is an i5-12600K if that helps.

I use an ASRock IMB-1314 motherboard in a U-NAS 810A case. I love that the compact case has room for eight 3.5" hard drives and that the motherboard has eight SATA slots plus four M.2 slots, two of which I use for NVME cards. My problem is I'd like to have a ninth SATA port to add a 2.5" solid state drive which the case supports. I've seen an inexpensive Xiwai B/M-Key M.2 to SATA Adapter which fits into one of my unused M.2 slots, but when I connected a hard drive to it (along with power) I didn't see it populating in Unraid. I checked motherboard BIOS settings to see if I needed to change any setting to "turn it on" but couldn't find anything. I also couldn't find any Unraid setting that might be applicable. The card was cheap and might have been a dud, but I'm wondering if anyone has an experience turning one of their M.2 slots into an additional SATA slot and using it in Unraid. Did you have to do anything special? Are there any caveats? Is there anything I can do to see where it might fail at? As an aside, I don't want to use my PCIe slots for the SSD drive. Also, my plan for this SSD drive is as a temporary dump when transferring large files over the network so the HHD speeds aren't a bottle neck. Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.

There's a docker file I use (php:apache), but after installing it I needed to make some changes via command line such as installing software like imagemagick and installing php extensions like mysqli and pdo. Each time I update the docker I also find myself having to rerun these commands. I'm wondering if its possible to make my own docker that builds off of another one, but makes my changes to it too. If so, how would I go about making this? And is it possible to make it in a way where I can use it make docker containers on other unraid servers for myself or share it publicly?

I did make this post, and it seems like a docker based solution would be better than a plugin.

Thank you both for your assistance, it seems like a docker would make more sense.

Thank you both very much! I have two M.2 slots I can use for drives. I'll plan on two NVME drives set up in a pool with RAID 1 and then periodic backups of it. Backups aside, if one of the pool drive fails, does Unraid have any support for detecting this and allowing me to remove, replace, and "reload" the bad drive? Can I also setup one drive now (not protected) and add another drive later, like how I can add a parity drive later to an array?

For an old build I made an array device with parity using high capacity HHDs that I stored things like my movie files. I also made a pool device on an NVME drive that I used to store my apps, dockers, system files, and a Maria Database. I like this setup, and want to replicate it for a new build, but I hate that the pool data isn't protected. What is the best way to protect my pool data?

Requesting a Unraid Music Player Plugin that could take advantage of the speaker output jack already on the motherboard. The plugin could read a folder for audio files and randomly shuffle and continuously loop through that folder. It would be nice if it could automatically detect and include or exclude recently added or removed audio files. Only minimal controls (play, stop, pause) needed. The idea would be to take advantage of existing hardware and to feed approved audio files into store, gym, lobby, elevator speaker systems, into a telephone PBX system for hold music, and other type environments.

I never did. It would be awesome if there was a premade solution but I wasn't able to find anything. I recently did come across creating VMs and passing sound through that. It's a bigger footprint than needed, but looks like a lightweight Windows 98 VM with the sound configured and running a media player might be at least one solution:

I created a docker container using a repository (php:apache). Using the command line inside the container I tried to install some software: pip install xxxxx I get the following error: error: externally-managed-environment × This environment is externally managed ╰─> To install Python packages system-wide, try apt install python3-xyz, where xyz is the package you are trying to install. If you wish to install a non-Debian-packaged Python package, create a virtual environment using python3 -m venv path/to/venv. Then use path/to/venv/bin/python and path/to/venv/bin/pip. Make sure you have python3-full installed. If you wish to install a non-Debian packaged Python application, it may be easiest to use pipx install xyz, which will manage a virtual environment for you. Make sure you have pipx installed. See /usr/share/doc/python3.11/README.venv for more information. note: If you believe this is a mistake, please contact your Python installation or OS distribution provider. You can override this, at the risk of breaking your Python installation or OS, by passing --break-system-packages. hint: See PEP 668 for the detailed specification. Trying to resolve the issue using the provided suggestions doesn't resolve the issue. Is there a trick to installing python packages?

I have an Unraid server that is already going to be deployed in an area. Background music is needed and I'm hoping the server can also be the music player as well. Will a docker container be able to output audio to the motherboard's speaker output by default? If possible but not by default, are there any special settings that need to be configured? Or maybe not a docker, but a plugin would have access to the audio output? If this already exists, does anyone have any recommendations? I would like to have a share folder I can add mp3 files to and the software automatically plays the files randomly (ideally with crossfade). It would also be awesome if the software would automatically recognize new files or the removal of files to include or exclude from the shuffle. No controls would be needed, but have the ability to pause/resume and control volume would be nice.

I have a lot of headless computers attached to the same network my Unraid server is connected to. I'm looking at how to manage them and it seems like Ansible is the best way forward. I have no experience with Ansible but watched some explanatory videos yesterday. It seems like I'll need a control node and I was hoping to use SOMETHING on the Unraid server for that. My normal go-to is community applications, but I only see Semaphore which seems like an add-on GUI for Ansible. I also see Google results for setting Ansible in a docker, but I don't know how to do that outside of community applications. What is the best way to create a Ansible control node on Unraid and how would I interact with it?

I'm use to installing dockers from community applications, but I found some Docker instructions for a tool I would like that isn't in CA. However, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to follow them for Docker in an Unraid setup. The specific instructions I'm trying to follow are: https://hub.docker.com/r/overv/openstreetmap-tile-server I'm trying to accomplish this: docker run -e UPDATES=enabled -v /absolute/path/to/luxembourg.osm.pbf:/data/region.osm.pbf -v /absolute/path/to/luxembourg.poly:/data/region.poly -v osm-data:/data/database/ overv/openstreetmap-tile-server import And then later this: docker run -p 8080:80 -v osm-data:/data/database/ -d overv/openstreetmap-tile-server run Note one ends in import and another ends in run. Would I enter this information into the command line? Do I need to add any additional parameters/fields into the mix like I see CA or Unraid adding (ie: -e TZ="America/New_York" -e HOST_OS="Unraid" -e HOST_HOSTNAME="Tower"). For some other situations I've clicked "Add Container" under the "Docker" tab and added the repository and completed the various fields, but nothing for something like this import/run setup. And it was always a crap shoot if the new docker would even start up or not. How would I proceed?

I've now created several working dockers by clicking "Add Container" on Unraid's Docker page, putting the docker's pull name as the repository, and adding ports and drives as needed. (For example, adding a container port 80 to an arbitrary port on the host.) I wanted to start a new project with a barebone's server so I tried to create a docker with the alpine repository by using "alpine". The docker was successful creating itself but in "Stopped" mode with pressing "Start" not doing anything and nothing is showing in the logs. Am I doing something wrong?

Thank you

There's a docker I need. I've been able to figure out how to install it from a repository (part1:part2) and add the needed ports and mappings. My issue is I need to make a modification to it. Online docker forum posts say things like "add RUN <commands> to my dockerfile" but I'm not sure how that translates to Unraid's use of docker. I've noticed I can open up the docker's console and run the command and it works just fine. It survives restarts but doesn't persist when I edit the docker settings. Can I specify a respositry of "part1:part2 RUN <commands>"? Or can I utilize advanced settings and specify something in the Extra Parameters or Post Arguments fields where it will run the commands when creating the docker instance?