andrewjs18

If I'm understanding you correct, I should have my backup scripts hook into/call that notify script to email me the status of the cronjob runs? Thanks!

I think I answered the 2nd half of my question just by doing some trial and error. once I modified the sshd_config file in /boot/config/ssh, it seemed to copy that over to /etc/ssh after a reboot so the changes were persistent, at least as far as I can tell.

thank you, this has been working well so far. is there a way to hook into the smtp settings so that once crontab runs its cronjobs, it'll email me a report as to what happened with the cronjobs that ran? I usually just do this in ubuntu/debian by adding my email address to the MAILTO at the top of the crontab. thanks!

few questions: I know how to do this on a general *nix OS, but unsure if it's different with unraid.. how do I get ssh to start on boot? for example, I just updated unraid to the latest version, which required a reboot. after the reboot, I wasn't able to ssh in from putty because there wasn't an instance of sshd running. I noticed that after changing the ssh port and trying to restart ssh: root@NAS:/boot/config/ssh# /etc/rc.d/rc.sshd restart WARNING: There does not appear to be a parent instance of sshd running. If you really want to kill all running instances of sshd (including any sessions currently in use), run '/etc/rc.d/rc.sshd stop' instead. Earlier in this thread, there was mention of copying the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file to /boot/config/ssh - which file do we need to modify so the settings stay persistent, the sshd_config in /etc/ssh or /boot/config/ssh? it seems when I reboot my unraid box, the port setting in sshd_config in /etc/ssh always gets reset back to the default port of 22. thanks!

thank you. do you have a suggestion on where to store my scripts on the system that will need to run to backup my other servers to the unraid box?

hi all, I recently downsized my NAS from a large 4u unit to a smaller unit from jonsbo that holds 5 HDD. With that, I also switched from FreeNAS to unraid as FreeNAS was a little more complex than I was looking for. My current set us has 3 HDDs for usage and 2 drives for parity, so a total of 12TB of usable disk space - each drive is 4TB. I currently have a jellyfin media share that is set up on disk 1, taking up approximately 900gb. I have 2 other potential use cases for this new NAS unit, backing up some of my servers to it and spinning up some VMs on it to play around with windows servers some more. should I manually set the backups to use disk 2 and the VMs to use disk 3, or will unraid automatically allocate the disk(s) based on current usage/utilization? as for the backups, what's the best approach here? I was planning on creating a directory under /mnt to store the backups. I currently run a bash script (I think a few are php based still) to run my backups through rsync. thanks for any help/suggestions!