MichaelVB

Sorry for the late reply, I was traveling. Ah yes that was it! At some point I must have set /mnt/user/ as en exclusion for fear it would back up everything but I realize disabling external volumes avoids that. all fixed now, thank you!!

had a look and they do have stuff in them, not much but 90MB and 16MB with files and not just empty folders

Hi all, I'm a bit stuck with an issue where tar verification fails for 2 of my containers. it also seems that it's not creating any backup of those containers as in the logs just before the failed tar verification it sais : "[Duplicacy] backup created without issues (took 00:00:00(hours:mins:secs))" which seems fishy to me. I don't know where to find the logs to share other than copy pasting the log available in the plugin's status/logs tab here's a run where i set the problematic plugins as first to run and then cancelled the backup process after they had failed: [29.12.2024 10:24:54][ℹ️][Main] 👋 WELCOME TO APPDATA.BACKUP!! [29.12.2024 10:24:54][ℹ️][Main] Backing up from: /mnt/user/appdata [29.12.2024 10:24:54][ℹ️][Main] Backing up to: /mnt/user/backups/appdata/ab_20241229_102454 [29.12.2024 10:24:54][ℹ️][Main] Selected containers: Duplicacy, Nginx-Proxy-Manager-Official, PostgreSQL_Immich, Thunderbird, foldingathome, homer, immich, jellyfin, jellyseerr, mariadb, minecraftbasicserver, nextcloud, pihole-unbound, protonmail-bridge, prowlarr, qbittorrentvpn, radarr, sonarr, vaultwarden [29.12.2024 10:24:54][ℹ️][Main] Saving container XML files... [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Main] Method: Stop/Backup/Start [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Duplicacy] Stopping Duplicacy... done! (took 0 seconds) [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Duplicacy] '/mnt/user/appdata/Duplicacy/logs' is within mapped volume '/mnt/user/appdata/Duplicacy'! Ignoring! [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Duplicacy] Should NOT backup external volumes, sanitizing them... [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Duplicacy] Calculated volumes to back up: /mnt/user/appdata/Duplicacy [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Duplicacy] Backing up Duplicacy... [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Duplicacy] Backup created without issues (took 00:00:00 (hours:mins:secs)) [29.12.2024 10:24:55][ℹ️][Duplicacy] Verifying backup... [29.12.2024 10:24:55][❌][Duplicacy] tar verification failed! Tar said: tar: /mnt/user/appdata/Duplicacy: Not found in archive; tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors [29.12.2024 10:24:58][ℹ️][Duplicacy] Starting Duplicacy... (try #1) done! [29.12.2024 10:25:01][ℹ️][qbittorrentvpn] Stopping qbittorrentvpn... done! (took 2 seconds) [29.12.2024 10:25:03][ℹ️][qbittorrentvpn] Should NOT backup external volumes, sanitizing them... [29.12.2024 10:25:03][ℹ️][qbittorrentvpn] Calculated volumes to back up: /mnt/user/appdata/qbittorrentvpn [29.12.2024 10:25:03][ℹ️][qbittorrentvpn] Backing up qbittorrentvpn... [29.12.2024 10:25:03][ℹ️][qbittorrentvpn] Backup created without issues (took 00:00:00 (hours:mins:secs)) [29.12.2024 10:25:03][ℹ️][qbittorrentvpn] Verifying backup... [29.12.2024 10:25:03][❌][qbittorrentvpn] tar verification failed! Tar said: tar: /mnt/user/appdata/qbittorrentvpn: Not found in archive; tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors [29.12.2024 10:25:07][ℹ️][qbittorrentvpn] Starting qbittorrentvpn... (try #1) done! [29.12.2024 10:25:10][ℹ️][Nginx-Proxy-Manager-Official] Stopping Nginx-Proxy-Manager-Official... done! (took 5 seconds) [29.12.2024 10:25:15][ℹ️][Nginx-Proxy-Manager-Official] Backing up the flash drive. [29.12.2024 10:25:22][❌][Nginx-Proxy-Manager-Official] Flash backup failed: no answer from script! [29.12.2024 10:25:24][⚠️][Main] Backup cancelled! Executing final things. You will be left behind with the current state! [29.12.2024 10:25:28][ℹ️][Main] DONE! Thanks for using this plugin and have a safe day [29.12.2024 10:25:28][ℹ️][Main] ❤️ thanks for any help I can get Michael

I spent another few hours doing stuff, some maybe helped, some probably didnt, i can;t tell what did or didnt for sure. but i managed to get down to C7, here's what i did (with lots of reboots everytime i did something to make sure it was fresh) - reset all the values in my bios to stock, then carefully went through everything one by one following the original post as much as possible - delete the "extra" folder from my flash drive to remove powertop - install NerdTools from the apps store - installed powertop through NerdTools, this got rid of the "no version information available" errors - disabled array auto start while i was diagnosing all this stuff to keep all the dockers and background stuff off - from a fresh boot i ran "powertop --calibrate" (takes a minute or two to test everything it needs to and the puts you back into powertop when it's done and you can hit ESC to see what it did) - restarted the server - ran "powertop --calibrate" again, then ran "powertop --auto-tune" now i was getting down to C3, so i started removing hardware to see what the limit was. i removed my M.2 ssd and my GPU and found that the system would go to C7 without the GPU. the M.2 was working with C7. in the end the differene was 6-7 watts so I kept the GPU in. I restarted the array and started dockers one by one, I found my minecraft server would keep the system with 0% in any c state, but all the other dockers allowed it to go down to the max C state my stsem was capable of (either C3 with gpu or C7 without) then i edited the file "go" under the config directory on my flash drive (i have Dynamix file manager installed so used it's text editor in the unraid gui) to include all the bits the mgutt recomended in his guide, except for disabling turbo because i didnt see any differences in idle power consumption on my i3 9100 and i guess why not keep the boost for when it's working at something. so now it would apply all the equivalent to auto tune and setting all the controllers to efficient states at every boot. And voila my 8 hour journey to reduce my server's consumption from 29 to 23 watts was complete lol (got it as low as 15 without case fans or a gpu which is nice. might look at using the IGPU in the future for tdarr and jellyfin transcoding beause each 1W of power is about 2 euros a year in electricity where i live and it could be a fun project) good luck man! and thanks to mgutt for his excellent guide and help to the community ❤️

i'm having the same issue unfortunately, and I'm not technical to figure it out sadly. the only thing i can find that's wrong is this when running powertop --help: root@fcloud:~# powertop --help powertop: /lib64/libncursesw.so.6: no version information available (required by powertop) powertop: /lib64/libtinfo.so.6: no version information available (required by powertop) Usage: powertop [OPTIONS] --auto-tune sets all tunable options to their GOOD setting -c, --calibrate runs powertop in calibration mode -C, --csv[=filename] generate a csv report --debug run in "debug" mode --extech[=devnode] uses an Extech Power Analyzer for measurements -r, --html[=filename] generate a html report -i, --iteration[=iterations] number of times to run each test -q, --quiet suppress stderr output -s, --sample[=seconds] interval for power consumption measurement -t, --time[=seconds] generate a report for 'x' seconds -w, --workload[=workload] file to execute for workload -V, --version print version information -h, --help print this help menu For more help please refer to the 'man 8 powertop' root@fcloud:~# apt-get install libncursesw6 bash: apt-get: command not found root@fcloud:~# it seems something required by powertop (/lib64/libncursesw.so.6) isnt installed or available on my server. anyone have any idea how to remedy that?