House Of Cards

I'm going to try this tutorial and see how it works out. Thanks for the tip!

So I can't fix the double NAT. I have cellular internet, so I will have to try some advanced workaround, and I'm hoping you guys/gals can step-by-step me through setting up remote access for my Emby server? What is the accepted, secure way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Oh, okay... Thanks for reminding me these weren't Samba specific. It's been a while since I dealt with anything other than NFS. I'll leave well enough alone then...

Is there any downside to adding this to UnRAID's Samba settings? [global] domain master = yes preferred master = yes local master = yes os level = 255 Just to make sure the UnRAID server is always "in charge"....

One benefit is that it would be cleaner, and allow more flexibility. For example, I used to keep the Flash Drive in a separate folder and sync that folder to another location. The reason is that because if UnRAID's flash drive dies, it would be more difficult to gain access to the backup on the server because I wouldn't be able to boot the server until I fixed the flash drive. In this scenario I'd have a flash copy somewhere else that is always up to date. The way it is now I'd have to keep all the docker backups and everything in sync just to have the latest flash drive, because the plugin keeps all the flash backups in separate folders for each backup version. Same with the VM image. It just makes recovery a lot easier, and lets us selectively archive things if we'd like. Thanks for all the work you do!

Any chance this can add options like the original had to select directories for different things. For example, to specify the location of the flash backup that is different from the docker location? The old version also backed up the VM image and let you put it somewhere different. Thanks for all the hard work!

I envy your server specs... 🤑

I can't help but notice the home page went from "Stable Imminent" back to "Soon"...

I know I have seen something about making sure the UnRAID server is always the master, and I have a mix of OS's in my house. Since the failures are totally random, I almost feel like this is related to changing Samba configurations messing things up. Are there issues with customizing the Samba settings on UnRAID?

I noticed a lot of updates in the last weeks, and I recently began noticing that the Mover is leaving random empty directories on the cache. It seems to be moving the files, but leaving the directories sometimes. As a result, my shares always show that something is in an unprotected state. Is there anything recently done that could have done this? I haven't changed anything... EDIT: After the automatic nightly mover these directories remained for over a week, but manually invoking the Mover cleared them out instantly. All better now...

I wouldn’t rule out some random thing specific to my setup. I’ve been known to break stuff. 🤣🤣 I’m copying things from my old TrueNAS over to UnRAID. I’m doing it from my laptop which runs MX Linux, and I notice just before the transfer fails the transfer speed drops completely to zero. Sometimes retry works, sometimes I gotta skip that file to recover. Could be anything, really. UnRAID is at the default settings for samba. I just now decided to dig down this rabbit hole. Because I have no real experience using samba, I wasn’t sure if this was common…

I've been using NFS for years, and can count the failed transfers on one hand. Ever since switching to UnRAID and SAMBA, file transfers randomly fail saying they could not write to the location mid-transfer, etc... Is this just a "SAMBA sucks" kinda thing, or is there any tweaking that can be done to improve the reliability?

The strategy I used was deciding what the next "need" in space would be, and replacing drives to that size when swapping drives with bad sectors, etc... Of course, I originally purchased 3TB drives which for some reason, seem to fail quite a bit. Just curious, what RAID level did you go with for 8 drives? Z1, Z2, Z3?

Agreed. First and foremost, I want stable. I built my current server (first UnRAID server) two months ago, and am still configuring and transferring files. Slow and steady, doing it right. So far, the flexibility of UnRAID over TrueNAS wins hands down. TrueNAS/ZFS is rock solid though. I became quite the ZFS veteran using TrueNAS, but the upgrades just cost a small fortune. In that system I have 5 drives. RaidZ2 with hot spare. Of the five drives, only two drives of space are usable, but I can lose three. Indestructible in practice, but adding space means buying 5 drives each time. I think the ZFS novelty factor will wear off, and many people who jumped on are going to find when the time comes to add a few TB of storage, they may not like the price tag. To each his own, though. They are both great in different ways.

I came from TrueNAS. Yes, ZFS is rock solid for sure. I could never kill it. I have disks with failing sectors in there right now, and who cares? I can lose three drives before I lose the array, and it's all backed up anyhow. The reason I left TrueNAS is because in that pretty screenshot above, if you ever need more space, you will have to upgrade 8 hard drives to get it. I can't justify $1000 every time I need a few more TB of space, but if it works for you, it's a great file system. Once I'm done moving everything, I'm going to repurpose that TrueNAS machine as a backup server. Use RSYNC to copy (push) files over to TrueNAS, and let snapshots keep a long-term history. Perfect. Indestructible.

Really? LOL I'm not on the beta, so waiting for stable to drop is like waiting for presents. Web site only shows RC5 with a note that stable is expected in a couple days. But the blog is dated May 1, so... I dunno. 🤣

What does "stable imminent" mean?....... soon. LOL

Direct backup ability, such as RSYNC pushing to a location of your choice on a schedule. Basically allowing automatic backups on another location. Right now, we are using 3rd party workarounds for this.

I knew it had to be simple. LOL I appreciate the help!

Greetings, I need to know how to modify this command so that it copies all the *files* in the parent folder without copying all the sub-directories. If I use "-R" it will copy all the sub-directory season folders, and I just want it to copy files, not the folders within. Essentially, just copy files in the parent folder without following sub-directories. cp /mnt/user/"First Location"/"Rick And Morty (2013)" /mnt/user/"Second Location"/"Rick And Morty (2013)" Any help would be appreciated...

Ooof... I hope that's not the only way. I mean, it's not unusable, but it seems like that would be terribly insecure to allow the defaults to "anybody". If someone manages to access anything on your network, they can access everything. I would think there would be additional options, but if all else fails, I'll have to work around this... Thanks for the help. 👍

If you don't mind, I need a guru like you. 😆 Unfortunately, there are a couple scenarios where programs just perform better mapped to an NFS share, otherwise I'd just use SMB for everything. So I need to set up some shares as NFS as well, and know how to do that in UnRAID. I have it exported, can mount it on clients, but I have no experience with the rules and security in this arrangement. Right now, I have no rules for the NFS shares. I can see the contents, but can't write. So can you work your magic and tell me what to put in the rule field? If I have a user, "husband" and want him to have r/w access, what should I put there? And if I have another share that I want "husband" to have r/w, and "wife" to have read-only? You would make this guys day if you could help me out. 👍 Thanks in advance!

Any chance of adding sort options to the top, like by script name, next run date/time?

This seems to be a wider issue, as there are numerous posts in the forum about content not showing, or the MyServers plugin being randomly offline. I'll mark this as closed for now, as my issue seems to be resolved right now.