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Darn, well those 28 hours backing up data to it was a waste. What about btrfs? Is that okay in the array with 2 disks, 1 as parity?

I made a 2 disk array using ZFS. A disk in parity and a disk in slot 1. But this makes it seem like it is a single disk array, not raidz: zpool status -v pool: disk1 state: ONLINE config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM disk1 ONLINE 0 0 0 md1p1 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Am I correct? This is not raidz and my data is not protected from disk failure?

I just precleared a disk which will sit in a closet waiting for a drive to replace when it fails. Will Unraid remember I precleared this disk when I connect it up again?

Delivered today was a used HGST HC510 (HGST_HUH721010ALE604). Everything seems okay so far, no SMART errors or warnings, disk sounds okay. It 44654h of power on time (5y 1m). Here's the full SMART output: I want to know, would you put this disk in your array? Or are the power on hours just too much? Thanks!

Hello, Is it possible to replace the parity disk with a smaller capacity drive as long as it is still larger than the data drives? Trying to determine whether I need to keep another 10TB on standby or if an 8TB is fine. Data drives are 4TB. Thanks!

Hey everyone, Can I backup appdata while it is in use (containers not stopped) with something like Duplicacy? I want to encrypt and sftp the data off site. At the moment I use the appdata backup plugin which stops containers and only backs up locally. Thanks!

Does this remain true if I'm setting up containers like this? Does mover remove the files after moving? I was hoping the files would be on both cache and appdata with appdata acting as a kind of automated backup.

Hi everyone, Just want to make sure I'm following best practices here. My shares config: My main concern is with appdata and system. I have all Docker containers pointing to /mnt/cache, is it still a good idea to move these to the array for safety (cache -> array)? The cache pool is btrfs raid 1 and appdata is backed up daily to an external disk. What about system? I'm trying to strike a balance between array being able to spin down and keeping my data safe. Open to suggestions. Thanks!

Do my settings look okay? Should I check any boxes under verification tasks? I'm also running a build for each disk. Which I assume is what I should do. Anything else I should do here?

This worked. Although I had to add my VM's again pointing the disk vdisk to the new location. Thanks!

Hi everyone, I made some changes recently and now Libvirt fails to start. I added a cache disk and it automatically put some share onto it. Since then, I've stopped Docker and VM's and ran the mover script. No luck. VM settings: Share settings: Cache directory showing libvirt file in correct place: Diagnostics: homeserver-diagnostics-20240119-1816.zip Thanks!

That's a relief, thanks. Does the SMART output look okay otherwise? No cause for concern with the other 2 warnings?

So I just found this post from 2013 Is this still correct or have we learned anything new since then? Note that my count of 60 high fly write is much higher than what I've typically seen (< 10).

Hi everyone, Just got a used Seagate Exos 10TB. Scrutiny is reporting a failure: And some warnings: Here's full report: What do you think?

Of course, I set a static in Unraid and reserve in the router.

Hi everyone, I just migrated from an AMD platform to Intel. New CPU, motherboard, RAM. Same disks. Are there are post-migration tasks I should do? I still see amdgpu and Intel NIC drivers, though I'm now on Intel + Realtek. Can I remove these? Should I even care? Also, I have a weird connectivity issue if I keep the same static IP as before. App store doesn't load, can't ping out, GUI is slow. If I set to DHCP, everything is fine. Any idea why that might be? Thanks!

That's not how to do it. Here's how: Install Wireguard-Client and configure Edit your qBittorrent app, change to 'Advanced View' at the top left Set 'Network Type' to 'None' In extra parameters, enter --net=container:Wireguard-Client In Wireguard app settings, add another port for whatever your qBittorrent port is* *this is how to do it for OpenVPN, I am only assuming it is the same for Wireguard.

Nextcloud has a great music plugin if you already use that. Subsonic and Ampache support as well.

I take into consideration when the latest update was and the number of downloads. If it's updated often and popular, it's probably the best choice.

Hey everyone, I'm setting up this trio of apps on Unraid and want to be sure everything is properly set up so my home IP is not revealed. I am using just the regular Sonarr, Jackett, and Deluge apps. Each of them have network type = none and --net=container:OpenVPN-Client. When I open the console for each of these apps and do curl ipinfo.io, the result is the VPN IP. Does this mean everything is completely running on VPN? My main concern is Deluge which shows a connection on port 58846, a port that was not mentioned during install and is not set up with OpenVPN. What do you think? Anything else I need to check? Thanks!

Hi @EDACerton Nice plugin, working well so far. I'm having trouble with one thing. How can I access docker containers on br0 network? For example: Tailscale IP: 10.100.55.44 resolves to my Unraid web UI (192.168.168.3 internally) qBittorrent local IP is 192.168.168.5, how do I access this over Tailscale? I have "Host access to custom networks" turned on. Is this even related? Thanks!

Okay, so I've figured it out. Seems the "pool" is always a cache pool. I thought it was just a secondary storage separate from the array. Is it okay to add my 4TB WD External drive to my current all SSD array which contains data already? Presumably I can just exclude it from all the shares except the one for backups. My end goal is move data I specify to the external drive as a backup. I hope I wouldn't be sacrificing any read/write/iops performance by doing this.

@itimpi I deleted the backup share and the other 2 shares created by the appdata backup plugin, and removed the plugin. Then, I did a re-scan with the plugin and the same warnings are present. In the share settings, there is no mention of a pool named "cache". I also never set up a cache. Any ideas? Edit: to clarify, the first warning is gone but these remain: homeserver-diagnostics-20230724-1848.zip

Hello again, Final question of the day. I want to make sure I have good backups locally and off-site. Ideally, I can backup Docker apps, VM's, and specific shares to my external 4TB drives and also to Backblaze. Is there anyone that does something like this who can share what they use? My initial thought was Duplicati but I couldn't get it to see my shares as the source... Thanks!

Hello, I currently have 16 GiB. I plan to replace it with 64 GiB. The system I have supports 64 GiB. However, Unraid is reporting a max of 32 GiB. Will I be unable to utilize 64 if I do this? This is a Minisforum HX90 and has 2 SODIMM slots. Thanks!