Kryspy

Just to add, I used to use WHS as well. On 2 different occasions (think I'd have learned from the first) it somehow managed to lose 1/2 of my mp3 files from A to P. Meaning in almost every album folder 1/2 of the songs were missing. If an album had 12 songs only 6 of them were there. In my opinion and others here you just can't trust any system no matter what it claims. Having an external solution no matter what is the only way to make sure you do not lose data. Kryspy

Hi, Which models work with the APC plugin? Kryspy

Well, All is working as advertised now. Re-setup the server. Ran a parity check. Removed a disk from the array and re-added it, let it rebuild. Shares were still acessible while re-building via the virtual disk. Kryspy

I see. So is it a one shot deal then for reconstructing data? I think the problem may have been a strange course of events. I did this disk update (pin 7/8) on Monday morning and then let it construct. We went to my mothers for thanksgiving dinner and when we came home the power had gone out somewhere around 4:10 pm which was within 20 minutes of my estimate of the reconstruct being finished. When I switched the server back on (not attached to a UPS) it began a parity check which I stopped at the 4% mark. I checked my disk1 and it was blank. From there I ran a reconstruct again with the same results. Any chance the power outage affected parity (stupid question) and the reconstruct hadn't actually finished? I now have a used APC UPS I plan to put into use today. Kryspy

I decided to start over as I have my data on spare drives lying around. This time after a parity check is complete I am going to torture test to make sure I fully understand how this all works and can do a reconstruct. Kryspy

I am stopping it as it never asked to format the drive first. Second I never see the size of the hard drive decreasing as if it is filling. Previous (yesterday) I let it run it's reconstructing course only to end up with nothing on the disk. Kryspy

Don't leave me hangin' Kryspy

Syslog attached. Also, flash disk is accessible along with disk1. Only problem is disk1 is empty. No boot issues. Only issue was me deciding to fool around with the pin out on the drive Kryspy syslog-2010-10-13.txt

No I was not. I assume that means that parity was invalid then? If I have to redo this I guess I will switch around the EARS drive and make it parity and use the other as disk1 while I am at it. I should add that I am only running with a disk1 and parity. Do I have to have run with 3 disks for this to work? Kryspy

Hi, I had run a full preclear on this drive previously so that is why I am running the -n option now. Kryspy

Okay, Thought I'd start a new topic so my problem didn't get lost in the other. I have a 1TB EARS drive that was fine in unRAID aside from really slow writes. I read the thread about applying a jumper to pins 7/8 so I did. unRAID wouldn't format it and gave 2 errors. I then started a preclear and cancelled it shortly after it starting. The drive then was allowed to be added to the array and a re-build started. At the end of it all it finished but wrote nothing to the disk. My shares aren't there and no data. I am puzzled to say the least. I have my data backed up on a few drives I have laying around but what gives. Is it because I start/stopped the preclear script? After formatting the disk as NTFS and as ext2 and re-adding them once more the option to format doesn't appear it just says that it's rebuilding the array and of course doesn't actually do it although it runs it's course. Any ideas? I am performing a preclear with the -n designation right now to see if cancelling the initial preclear somehow messed it up and unRAID is somehow thinking it's all set to go. Strangely the -t returns it as not precleared. Any faster way to get this show on the road? Kryspy

Anyone who has this working have any insight ? Kryspy

I didn't edit the file. I simply used the stock one supplied by the person who got this set up for unRAID Here is the script: #!/bin/bash ########################## # /var/subsonic/data ########################## DIRFROM="/boot/subsonic/data" DIRTO="/var/subsonic/data" if [ ! -d $DIRTO ] then echo "### Create Subsonic Data Directory ###" mkdir -p $DIRTO echo "### Clear Flash thumbs ###" rm -R -f $DIRFROM/thumbs/* echo "### Copy Subsonic Data files ###" cp -R $DIRFROM/* $DIRTO/ echo "### Create Encoder Symlinks ###" LIBS="/var/subsonic/data/transcode/usr-lib/" for i in $LIBS* do echo $i ln -s -f $i -t "/usr/lib" done sleep 3 fi ########################## # /var/subsonic/standalone ########################## DIRFROM="/boot/subsonic/standalone" DIRTO="/var/subsonic/standalone" if [ ! -d $DIRTO ] then echo "### Create Subsonic Data Directory ###" mkdir -p $DIRTO echo "### Copy Subsonic Standalone files ###" cp -R $DIRFROM/* $DIRTO/ sleep 3 fi ########################## # /tmp/subsonic ########################## DIRFROM="/boot/subsonic/tmp-subsonic-ehcache" DIRTO="/tmp/subsonic/ehcache" if [ ! -d $DIRTO ] then echo "### Create Subsonic tmp Directory ###" mkdir -p $DIRTO echo "### Copy Subsonic ehcache files ###" cp -R $DIRFROM/* $DIRTO/ sleep 3 fi ########################## # Run Subsonic - RAM. ########################## cp /boot/scripts/subsonic_delete_thumbs_ram.sh /etc/cron.hourly/ /var/subsonic/standalone/subsonic_RAM.sh Kryspy

Did a total reinstall of everything and still get the same. What file is it accusing of being wrong ? Kryspy

Okay so now I redid the setup and just replaced the subsonic/standalone drirectory and re-edited the file using metapad and made sure it saved as a UNIX style code. Now I get this error. By the way how come I can't see a /var directory on my flash. Am I missing something or is because I am looking at it in Windows? I am going to Ubuntu 10.10 tomorrow. Kryspy

Executing the script gives me this.....

Once this drive is done I will then move my data to a 250 and 500 GB drives and then pre-clear my other 1 TB I plan to use as disk1 and then add it to the array. Then I will add my 250 GB drive that I use as disk2 and mainly just for receiving torrent data so I don't much care about it. Kryspy

Okay so I removed my 1TB parity disk and am currently running the pre-clear script on it. I installed the smartctl package after it had started but I assume that will be okay. Now I read about other missing packages. Am I good or do i need to install more packages? I am running 4.5.6. Kryspy

kizer, Now that really sounds like fun. Gonna give that a go after parity finshes. Kryspy

So, I am enjoying the simplicity of UNraid but I have a problem with trusting my data to a data recovery method that I have never seen in action. For me I cannot trust he concept of parity to work only when the need arises. So tomorrow I guess I will have to set up a 250 GB drive, move some files to it, pull it and replace with a 500 GB drive that I have and let it rebuild. This is the only way I can trust this set up. Can I simply drag and drop some files to my disk2 (250 GB drive) and then pull it? I assume so. Kryspy

So, In haste I installed a 1 TB WD green drive and moved my data to it and then installed another 1 TB as parity. These drives were previously used in a Windows environment. One thing though I didn't pre-clear or delete or whatever using the pre-clear script. Any harm done here ? Is it worth my while to remove the 1 TB being used as parity and at least do that one? Thoughts? Am I paranoid? Kryspy

purko. Thanks alot that did the trick. I forgot about the name reference differences. Works great now. I am in the process of changing over to Ubuntu 10.04 or Linux Mint 9 and getting rid of Windows 7. Kryspy

Okay so I used putty to telnet in but I keep getting a file not found error. I put the untorrent file on the flash drive in a folder I called addons. I then used installpkg /flash/addons/untorrent*.tgz and I get file not found. Thanks Kryspy

Ok, I may be a bit thick here but how on earth do you install add-ons. I am using the free version. I have searched and have been unable to find an answer which makes me think I have missed something obvious here. Thanks in advance, Kryspy