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Hi there, I'm pretty new to unraid and duplicacy, so please go easy! I'm trying to setup a file-server, backup server and offsite backup. In my file server I have the following shares :- - photos - admin - homes I have duplicacy setup on the backup server with share:- - backup - duplicacy - photos - admin - homes I've setup duplicacy on the backup-server with storage for each of the folders above. I've created backup configs to backup the file server shares to the backup server folders. My thinking is to then setup a gDrive or backblaze storage on duplicacy, and then to create a backup config to backup the entire backup-server backup share to the cloud. My question is, should I create a single storage and backup to backup all the local backups to the cloud? Or should create a unique storage for each backup;eg gdrive-photos gdrive-admin gdrive-homes I'm thinking the latter is more useful (I don't need to restore the entire backup from the cloud just to restore one of the shares. The former seems easy, but lazy. Finally, and I'm thinking the answer is obvious as I write this... should I backup the local backup to cloud, or should the cloud backups also point to the file-server shares directly? (eg file-server/photos -> gdrive vs file-server/photos -> backup-server/backup/duplicacy/photos -> gdrive) What would the pros and cons of each approach be? Thanks in advance for any advice!

Big thanks! That appears to have worked!

And is the size I've defined in the command correct?

Thanks again, So, just to confirm, I need to do the following :- - stop the preread. - run `hdparm -N p5860533168 /dev/sdb`. (Is the size correct? ) - format drive. - assign to parity - run parity - relax ?

Hmm, damn. ``` hdparm -N /dev/[hs]d[a-z] /dev/sda: SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]: f0 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 max sectors = 0/1, HPA is enabled /dev/sdb: max sectors = 5860531055/5860533168, HPA is enabled /dev/sdc: max sectors = 3907029168/3907029168, HPA is disabled /dev/sdd: max sectors = 3907029168/3907029168, HPA is disabled /dev/sde: max sectors = 976773168/976773168, HPA is disabled /dev/sdf: max sectors = 5860533168/5860533168, HPA is disabled ``` So, I need to run `hdparm -N p5860533168 /dev/sdb` I'll take a look at the bios to see if I can disable the hda feature for the short term. Long term it looks like I need a new mobo Thank you so much for pointing me in the right direction! As this is the parity drive, am I safe to assume I can either fix using the above command or obtain a larger drive for parity?

Hey Jorge, thanks for the quick response. It's not Shucked. Diags attached. From the diags, I can confim the parity drive is sdb. I'm currently running preclear to see if that makes any difference, or do I need to cancel and run some cli commands to reset the partitions? tower-diagnostics-20240102-1107.zip

I've got an odd issue. I had a parity (not completed), which I temporarily removed to allow me to setup a new config. Now when I try to assign that same drive back as parity, I'm getting the "Disk in parity slot is not biggest." error. I've tried clearing the drive, formatting it, but no joy. I'd try fdisk, but I'm not convinced I can identify the correct drive to format. The parity drive "fdisk -l" info is as follows. I can't figure out how to confirm which drive in the UI relates to sdb or sdf. ``` fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 2.73 TiB, 3000591900160 bytes, 5860531055 sectors Disk model: WDC WD30EFRX-68E Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 5BDCE4B5-A531-4BB7-AE4E-2DB5701100FD fdisk -l /dev/sdf Disk /dev/sdf: 2.73 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors Disk model: WDC WD30EFRX-68E Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 2A750CBA-D0AB-4DF9-81B7-95D561F6DB20 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sdf1 64 5860533134 5860533071 2.7T Linux filesystem```