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Thanks, C3 Based on that analysis this would not be best to use in an uNRAID server. One would have to update the parity drive and that is used constantly. Archive drives are best used for data that does not change. An archive is written once, and never changed, not updated or deleted. A large amount of the data on most unRAID installation is media which is not being changed, updated, or even deleted. This is a good match. Image backups which are updated weekly/monthly are less of a match.

Hello, Does this type of drive make more sense for general use in an uNRAID or as a dedicated drive for things that one doesn't want spread over drives (I know I am asking that terribly)? I was thinking of add adding a drive just for image backups, document backup and audio files. I do understand I will have to be two so that one can become the Parity drive.

TVAddons. But that makes sense if you are interested in the other features it offers (which I am). Check their site. Otherwise I'd stick with the way you are doing it now. There's an addon? Mind telling us what it is? I just use Notepad++

Understood, CHBMB I usually use a Kodi addon to easily manipulate the advancedsettings.ini for my boxes. Keeping a copy as you suggest is smart. I think you jinxed me. lol. It looks like I am going back to a MariaDB and headless Kodi solution. I was already frustrated by some of my Addons (specifically LazyTV) no longer working properly since I instituted Emby. I missed the near instantaneous synching of content list between my Android TV devices with Kodi. Now Kodi is not showing a complete list of content even though the Emby server has movies and episodes linked properly. I'm going to tinker around a bit more before I revert. I will miss just adding an agent to Kodi and having it connect to an Emby server easily. I just save a basic copy of advancedsettings.xml and pasting it into new installations before doing anything else. Easily adds new instances of Kodi to existing setup.

I went back into the Docker settings and tried "Koma-Isengard" instead of "Koma" It returned: "Enter password: root@Myservername:~#" Is that right? I am trying to run scan of Koma-Isengard through the browser to see if it will populate before I start pointing my Kodi boxes to it. I see nothing happening yet, but I don't recall if that takes a really long time. Update: I ran a scan of my media folders with a device configured to use the KOMA on the server. Things are populating.

Hello, I decided to move to Koma-Isengard from Emby. I believe I setup it up correctly. In the description area it instructs the following: start the container let it run for a couple of minutes and then stop/start it go to unraid terminal and issue this command docker exec Koma createuser kodi kodi restart container When I run the docker command listed above I get a "FATA[0000] Error response from daemon: no such id: Koma" What incredibly obvious thing might I have missed? Let me add I've done a complete reinstall (including deleting folders). I've restarted the uNRAID server. I've had the container run for longer than a couple of minutes and restarted as well. I've also run the Docker command from the main console and a Putty terminal window. Thank you...

I think you jinxed me. lol. It looks like I am going back to a MariaDB and headless Kodi solution. I was already frustrated by some of my Addons (specifically LazyTV) no longer working properly since I instituted Emby. I missed the near instantaneous synching of content list between my Android TV devices with Kodi. Now Kodi is not showing a complete list of content even though the Emby server has movies and episodes linked properly. I'm going to tinker around a bit more before I revert. I will miss just adding an agent to Kodi and having it connect to an Emby server easily.

This looks good. But my reading is showing it is recommended for 1 - 5 bay NAS. I am beyond that. Does anyone have any insight on this? Thank You.

Thank you both. It's a bit unnerving to watch those drive temperatures continue to climb (even with fans blowing on them). I'll stress a little less and research the healthy temperature range on those drives.

Hello, I began noticing that my Parity drive began approaching temperatures of 45 - 46c. What is strange is the other drives in my array (minus my latest) seem to stay below 40c. My Parity drive is a 6TB HGST. I noticed that whether or not I have a fan on my server that Parity drive will shot up to 45c. My SSD Cache drive has occasionally gone up to 43c. It usually seems to that when I am working with virtual machines. On some of our really hot days (90f+ w/humidity) I am reluctant to use my server. But I have noticed it on a couple of days (High 70's/ Low 80's and low humidity) the Parity drive reaches those same questionable temperatures. When I notice this happening I've taken to manually spinning down the parity drive. Is there anything else I can check or should look into? Unfortunately I have no A/C in this room (the only place I can house it) right now. My server was provided by Limetech and the specs are below: Model: AVS-10/4-X-6 M/B: Supermicro - X10SL7-F CPU: Intel® Xeon® CPU E3-1230 v3 @ 3.30GHz 7 drives including the Parity and Cache drive. Thank You...

Thanks for the clarifications. I would have been doing USB3 if I could have.

Hello. Thanks for the post. I didn't see it at the time, but got the Pre-clear going and was able to continue accessing the array as you described. When I left for work this Morning it was doing the Zeroing out portion. I used the Gui. I still like the idea of using a pre-clearing method seperate from the uNRAID server (as I don't always like to leave it on for serious lengths of time). Thanks again... You can use the array just fine while preclear is running. The reason we are discussing a separate system is that the OP is out of SATA ports with no other good options. As long as you have a physical slot to install that 5TB drive without removing one of your array drives, you are good to go with just powering down the array, physically install the drive, start the array back up, then use the preclear script either with screen or the GUI plugin and use the array exactly as you do now while the preclear completes. After the preclear is done, stop the array, assign the drive, start the array, format the drive. VERY little actual downtime. Since the OP is replacing a drive instead of adding a slot, preclear isn't technically needed, but I believe the intent is to use the preclear session to thoroughly test the drive before trusting it with data.

Hello, Everyone Here is my takeaway from this thread. if you don't want to do a Pre-clear on your poduction software you can do the following: Download an evaluation copy of uNraid. 1. Configure a flash drive with it. 2. Boot that flash drive on an older machine. 3. Configure and install Pre-clear (script and maybe Plugin). 4. Connect the new hard drive by USB (2.x or 3.x) or eSata. 5. Run the pre-clear script. 6. Place the pre-cleared drive into the array and add it. Does that sound right? I am thinking that for a 5tb drive (which is what I have) I would be risking some crazy downtime if I pre-clear it in my live array. Thank You

Hello, danioj I have been experimenting with this for the past few days. Emby seems to have a lot to offer. I will use it for a few days and then decide if I will go back to Headless Helix and Maria Db. I have issues getting it to behave with Kodi side plugins like LazyTV. When I try to play videos that way they tend to crash. If I go to play the same video from recently added or going directly to TV it works fine. When I try to force a refresh (from the Kodi device) it barks and gives an error. Eventually it WILL synch. On the plus it is really nice to be able to access Emby through my browser and modify any settings I need to. Using Headless Kodi on my uNraid only allowed me to run scans or clean the database (which is actually not a complain). I too like that once you install the Emby plugin it just finds your EmbyServer. But I warn that the time it takes to synch to with your Kodi devices the first time can take a while if you have a lot of media. I like that you can also set it up so it WON'T do on the fly conversion of your video. This was not very intuitive to setup (to me) but it worked well once I did. I also did a test of just installing the Emby app on my tablet and that worked pretty well too. And I am reading that another big plus is that it is easy to make your content available to you when you are out of the home. Again, I am still playing. I can see how a lot of people might use it instead of a headless Kodi and MySql. I's a bit friendlier to setup.

Thanks, Squid. I went back over the process again. In fact I was able to figure it out the next day. The 2nd command had not executed. I was able to verify the account and then went and changed the Advancedsettings.xml on my Matricom G Box-Q and it looks good. I even pulled out my old Boxee box (with Kodi on it) and verified that it could access the database content too. Now I'll look into Headless Kodi to see if it's worth setting that up too. Thanks again!

I can't figure out how to run the commands you gave me through MySQL. That may because I had a super long day. I may have to try the other option you presented. I saw it before, but wasn't sure if "headless" meant it gave more configuration options or was about installing a full Kodi (which I am not looking to do) on unRAID. I'll try your steps again Tomorrow and then consider this option if I can't figure it out. thanks again.

Thank you, Squid. I'll look up how to use MySQL workbench and give it a try.

Hello, I am trying to use Mariadb to centralize my Kodi database. I never did this before. I have no experience with MySQL and thought I'd do this with a containerized MariaDB. I am quickly realizing I have no clear how to begin. I managed to install the Docker successfully. I've read around about configuring MySQL. But I am not able to tie everything together like how I could access and configure the MariaDB I installed. The more I read the more I realize I have no clue what to do. Am I just not finding the right information in the forums? Are there any beginning to end directions available that might help? Thank You.

This may be embarrassingly obvious, but... why does one need to backup the Flash Drive? Is it just a good habit like changing smoke detector batteries with daylight savings time or something? I've done that several times: Run several preclears on the new parity drive before I add it as parity. Backed up my flash drive. Pulled the old parity drive and set it to the side and add the new drive as parity and rebuilt parity on it. Once the parity build has completed do a parity check to make sure everything was built correctly. Once that was done then put the old parity drive back into the computer and do a write only preclear before adding it to the array as a data drive. Depending on the drives sizes and speeds that could take 1-3 days to complete. If you like living dangerously and don't want to have a backup to fall back on you could do the write only preclear on a different box while the parity build/check is going on to cut down on the time. But it is best to use the safe method and spend the extra time.

Thank you. I wanted to add a new drive. Since my new drive is larger than my parity drive I understood I should use it to replace the old Parity. Then I would take the old parity and add it to my array as an additional drive. I'll figure out if I have the time to just let my server clear the drive or do a preclare. I wish I ustility like Spinrite could do it. Thanks again! Do you actually have a faulty drive? If you are not trying to rebuild a bad drive, then there is no reason to use swap-disable. Just replace the parity drive and let it rebuild. Do you want the old parity drive to replace one of your data drives, or do you just want to add it to the array? If replacing then just replace and let it rebuild. If adding, then you would need to preclear or unRAID will have to clear it for you and you will be offline while it does. Also, while unRAID does not require parity to be clear, it is a good idea to preclear any new drive so it gets a good test.

Hello, I've purchased a DESKTAR NAS 6TB to replace my 4TB parity drive (supplied by unRAID). Is the procedure below the way I should handle the upgrade? I want the 6TB drive to now be the parity and the old 4TB one to become a regular drive. I'd like to do this tonight. Also, does a pre-clear process still need to be done in this scenario?

I have to "ditto" those other options. However those ideas are implemented having a friendly way to move/copy data from one unRAID server to another is a great idea. Especially if it has a robust GUI opiton.

Lion and bobkart, thank you. I combined both of your methodologies while using shares and eliminating the "resierfs" part and it worked. I got much better copy speeds than I expected. I used Midnight Commander (type: mc) and it was pretty straightforward. I will modify my response to include the commands I typed for clarity. I am also thinking about seeing if I can(or it makes sense) to combine Synchthing in here and not use Midnight Commander (I don't know that even makes sense). I'm so happy guys! I got a little too excited here. I was able to mount the source sever on my destination server. mount 192.100.1.200:/mnt/user/video guest -o ro I was then able to execute Midnight Commander and it looked like everything was working. But for some strange reason it would come and say it could not read the "stat" on some folders. This seems random. I would then go and examine the folders explorer and even manually try copying it that way it would be fine. It's utterly bizarre. I really thought I had it. I did get a lot of files copied but now see there are gaps. I am going to break down and try rsync. I so hate command line actions for things like this.

Well bummer.... I also made one and should have looked here first. hahah http://seandion.info/unraid/unraid-dockers/ I wrote it a while ago, but should have linked to it. Its not titled as a how too create a docker. I modified my post above, but here it is also. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35531.msg330955#msg330955 Hello, Smdion If you add some clarification and an example of the "Container Volume" and "Host Path" I think your document would perfect. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that you also provided definitions. Thank You. I've updated it, let me know if that helps? I am so loving your document. I've put you in my signature for a couple of days now. The "Host Path" definition is nice. I liked that you included an example too. The "Container Volume:" is the one that I have confusion with. In fact using that properly with the "Host Path" was what was clobbering me. So tell me if I (finally) understand this properly. OPTION A: The Container Volume is where you can essentially put an alias for the Host path for the container you are working with. So you could just put the Host Path in the Container volume and you'll have to drill down that path for whatever application (say Plex) you dockerized to get to the video folder: /mnt/user/video/ OPTION B: Define the Container Volume: Video Host Path: /mnt/user/video. In this scenario will Plex is running you'll see a "video" which takes you directly to the video folder in /mnt/user/video. Thank You Option B is pretty much spot on. Container Volume: /video Host Path : /mnt/user/video With plex running in the container, when plex accesses /video it is actually accessing /mnt/user/video on the host. Ninja edit: also re-updated that page on my site. Let me know if that helps and if I can change anything for clarity for other users. Yes. I am accessing my host system (unRAID server) from the app. I was getting tripped up (like other people have from what I saw on various forum entries) on what to put into the "Container Volume" not understanding it was just a way to setup or an alias (or shortcut). If you think you can translate my gibberish to English (can you do magic?) then you will be able to address a "gotcha" some people saw going in. FYI. I used Option A) as I understood I could not leave the option blank (otherwise did not let me navigate my server within) the app. I also didn't mind having the navigate the full path as it re-enforces me understanding where things are. Again, if I had you and Dmtalon's link from the beginning I d probably would have been productive ages ago. I can never say thanks enough. Note: Someone else gave me an example of the Container and Host first in a post, but I can't find who that was to thank them.

Well bummer.... I also made one and should have looked here first. hahah http://seandion.info/unraid/unraid-dockers/ I wrote it a while ago, but should have linked to it. Its not titled as a how too create a docker. I modified my post above, but here it is also. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35531.msg330955#msg330955 Hello, Smdion If you add some clarification and an example of the "Container Volume" and "Host Path" I think your document would perfect. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that you also provided definitions. Thank You. I've updated it, let me know if that helps? I am so loving your document. I've put you in my signature for a couple of days now. The "Host Path" definition is nice. I liked that you included an example too. The "Container Volume:" is the one that I have confusion with. In fact using that properly with the "Host Path" was what was clobbering me. So tell me if I (finally) understand this properly. OPTION A: The Container Volume is where you can essentially put an alias for the Host path for the container you are working with. So you could just put the Host Path in the Container volume and you'll have to drill down that path for whatever application (say Plex) you dockerized to get to the video folder: /mnt/user/video/ OPTION B: Define the Container Volume: Video Host Path: /mnt/user/video. In this scenario will Plex is running you'll see a "video" which takes you directly to the video folder in /mnt/user/video. Thank You