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Oddly enough, deleting those 2 files seems to have resolved everything!

Tried to change DNS servers on my NIC this morning to external which dropped my network connection in Unraid. Had to reboot, console in and delete /boot/config/network.cfg to have it regenerate. It created the file but for some reason my NICs are eth4-8 instead of 0-3, so I added them all to the bond before I could reconnect. |Now I am back in the web GUI but Docker says no Docker containers installed and under my Shares tab there are only the default Unraid shares, none of my user shares are there. If I browse directly on the disks, I can see that all my data still exists. Any way to restore my settings or do I need to recreate my shares and redeploy docker? tower-diagnostics-20260119-0850.zip tower-diagnostics-20260119-1016.zip

I am getting errors on my downloads that say to sign in to confirm I am not a bot, any way I can actually do this?

For anyone reading this in the future, I am pretty sure I managed to resolve all of my problems. The problem was an improper use of the tar command. To copy folders: tar cf - “directory1” “directory2” | ( cd /destination/directory; tar xfp - ) In order to restore from the tape just run the same command but change your source and destination directories. If you are LS'd into your LTFS mount directory you CANNOT umount it! Change Directory to anywhere else and umount will work. The only oddity was file permissions after I copy from the tape back to the array. I was unable to browse/open the folder until I chmod -R 777 /that/folder

First off, thank you for creating this plugin, I have always wanted to have some tape archives at home and this seemed like a much easier way than passing through to a Debian VM and trying to transfer data that way. However, I think I am doing everything completely wrong with LTFS. Running Unraid 7.0.1 I am using brand new IBM branded LTO7 tapes in a (not new) IBM ULTRIUM-HH7 drive on firmware Q385 (my tapes were purchased from SHI so I at least feel good about them being legitimate) When I insert a new tape, I run mkltfs -d /dev/sg23 to format the tape which appears to work just fine. Next, I mount with ltfs -o devname=/dev/sg23 /mnt/ltfs -o eject -o umask=777 When I need to archive to tape I go to the top-level folder and run Tar cf - "folder name" | ( cd /mnt/ltfs; tar xfp - ) Initially this seemed to work, I could ls /mnt/ltfs and see the folders that copied, I assumed it was working and left it alone as my backups were running automatically on Monday mornings at 1AM. I got an additional box of tapes and wanted to start to archive my media, mostly video and photos with some music. From what I understand all of those media formats are already compressed and I shouldn't expect any further compression on the tape, which is fine. I anticipated just using as close to 5TB as possible on the tapes just to keep some overhead and sanity. I format the new tape and ran Tar cf - "folder name" "folder name" "folder name" "folder name" "folder name" | ( cd /mnt/ltfs; tar xfp - ). In this scenario my data added up to approximately 165GB. Towards the end of the files, I continued to get "No space left on device" messages. My array has about 29TB of free space and the tape was just formatted. I thought I did something wrong so I formatted the tape again and tried again but the same issue persisted, it gets to almost the end of what I selected and kept giving "No space left on device" messages. I check tape logs by running sg_logs -a /dev/sg23 and assume that everything is copying to the index partition. All files in the array are on 12TB 5400 RPM SAS disks. Tape is connected via a separate 6gb SAS controller and the tape drive is in an external enclosure, the tape drive was never part of a library. Ok, fine, let me put my Monday backup tape back in and just see if that's OK. I put the Monday tape in, mount with the same command ltfs -o devname=/dev/sg23 /mnt/ltfs -o eject -o umask=777 Now if I try to copy files to the original Monday tape I get errors I am sure the issue has to lie with me. I just want to throw files to tape, bring them to the bank vault and rotate them quarterly. If anyone could help me out it would be appreciated. I will mention that this "Monday Tape" was originally formatted and SEEMINGLY working fine on Unraid 7.0.0 (although I never once ran a test restore of the data, only by checking ls /mnt/ltfs)