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New to UNRAID and not super familiar with Linux: If I am running a process in a terminal window (such as a long rsync) and I close that terminal window before it completes, will it kill the process? If not, how to I get it back so I can view its progress? Thanks!

New to UNRAID coming from Windows... Is it possible to create nested shares? Thanks!

Hello, I am migrating from a Windows server to UNRAID in the same chassis. I have a couple of new hard drives that I already ran preclear on and will be setting them up with new shares. I want to mount the old drives formatted with NTFS via unassigned plugin and copy data to the new drives with a new share structure. I have may TBs of data to transfer. Should I wait to enable the parity drive until after I copy the data? Also would like to ensure the process does not fail halfway through a copy and need to restart from the beginning... What is the best way to do this? I saw something about Krusader but not sure if that's still current? Thank you!

Sorry one last question... I am thinking of dedicating an entire physical hard drive to use for the photo library. Would it be possible and feasible to do a direct pass through of the "raw" disk to the VM, but still allow the UNRAID host system to read the contents of that drive to do the backups? EDIT: BTW, it appears there is an iCloud sync tool for Windows 11, so if Mac VM becomes an issue, I may go that route instead...

Greetings! I am migrating from Windows Server with Legacy BIOS boot to UNRAID. Is there a benefit to switching to UEFI, or should I leave it on Legacy?

Gotcha, appreciate the response! In that case, I might give it a shot anyway but instead of a shared folder, I guess I could create a second vDisk and attach that to the VM, and just back up that vDisk from the host side... I'm not familiar with any hypervisor besides VMware and Hyper-V, but I'm assuming I can create multiple vDisks and mount them to any VM? Also, I'm assuming I can create the disk small to start and have it dynamically grow over time?

I don't even have UNRAID installed yet but am doing research before migrating to it from Windows. I would like to try running a MacOS VM on UNRAID and download a local copy of my iCloud Photos library to it. However, I want to avoid downloading the library into the VM's vDisk image. Instead, I would like the library to be stored on the UNRAID NAS share so that it can then be backed up by a Crashplan docker image. In MacOS, the Photos app does NOT allow you to store your Photos library file on a network attached drive, it has to be a hard drive or USB/Thunderbolt connected drive. Is there a way to create a standard shared folder in UNRAID NAS that I can then mount directly into the MacOS VM so that MacOS sees it as a standard disk or USB drive vs. a network mapped drive? Sorry if this is a dumb question, new to this... Thanks for any help!

great to hear, thanks so much!

Hello, I am planning to install and use UNRAID for the first time and one of my requirements is to use Crashplan for backups. I noticed from this thread that people are having issues but no posts since June 30th. Is this fixed and stable now?

Hello everyone, I have heard the UNRAID community is the best and wanted to say hi as a soon-to-be new user! Also, would love some feedback and tips on migrating to UNRAID from my current setup if you have some time: Current system: HP Microserver Gen10, AMD Opteron X3216, 8GB ECC RAM, 4 external bays, one internal SATA 1 x Kingston 24gGB SSD (OS), 1 x WD Red 12TB, 1 x HGST 6TB, 2 x HGST 4TB Windows Server 2012 R2 Stablebit Drivepool for storage pooling with folder-level duplication for a little over 20TB usable SMB file sharing for Mac clients Crashplan Pro unlimited cloud backups Plex Media Server qBittorrent Homebridge running as a Hyper-V VM As a side note, I am also trying to figure out a way to back up my iCloud Photo Library in their original format instead of relying solely on iCloud. Currently I have an old MacBook Pro laptop plugged into an external USB drive where my photo library files are stored whose sole purpose is to stay powered on and sync my iCloud Photo Library locally. There are a couple of reasons I’m planning to switch things up: Crashplan Pro will stop supporting my OS soon, and I don’t want to stick with Windows I am starting to run out of space Docker does not support my OS as far as I know and been wanting to move my home bridge to Docker, as well as play around with some other Docker images here and there. Less overhead for system means more resources for other functions Better compatibility with Mac clients? (SMB on Windows can be a you-know-what sometimes) I’ve been doing some research and the reason I think I will settle on UNRAID is the fact that it seems to behave similar to Stablebit Drivepool in that I can mix and match drives of different sizes and grow them slowly over time. Also the fact that since data is not striped across drives, if needed, I can easily plug drives into another system to recover data intact (just like with Drivepool). My primary use case is as a NAS, with some containers and possibly a VM or two. My plan for use case: Move Homebridge to a docker container Either run a Crashplan container, or set up a Mac VM with mapped drives for Crashplan backups Use the Mac VM to also download my iCloud Photo Library locally directly onto the NAS, which will then get backed up to Crashplan, without having to use a dedicated MacBook plugged in all the time. Plex Media Server Some type of torrent client My plan for migration: I have already purchased 2 x 18TB Seagate Exos refurbs from ServerPartDeals.com and waiting for them to arrive I am running Stablebit Scanner to scan all current drives for errors (SMART has been green for forever, oldest drive is 9 years old) When the new drives arrive, unplug all old drives, plug in both 18TB drives, run UNRAID off USB, and do a pre-clear check on them using the unassigned plugin (?) Assuming they both pass, unplug both new drives, plug all old drives back in, boot up Turn off the duplication feature in Stablebit Drivepool and rebalance all data onto 1 or 2 drives (assuming I can fit them all, fI should be able to fit all on 2 or 3 drives) Unplug empty old drives, plug in 1 new drive and boot into UNRAID Use unassigned plugin to mount old NTFS drives Copy data to new drive Unplug old drives, plug in the other new drive Turn on parity for that other new drive I have a second Kingston 240GB SSD drive, I plan to plug that into the internal SATA and use it as a cache drive Validate data, run for a while Set up docker containers, etc. If all good, I can plug in 2 of the largest of the old drives, format, and use in storage pool (or just leave them out till I need the space?) I understand my system is vastly underpowered compared to a lot of newer builds, but I'm trying to keep costs low for now. If it doesn't work out due to lack of resources, I will look into building something, as I understand I can just pop the drives into another system... (?) Whew! Am I on the right track? Are my use cases and migration plan valid? I have never touched UNRAID before so any help would be greatly appreciated!