joshpond

Hi all, I have a portable USB that is encrypted with Veracrypt to backup some files from a Win 10 PC. I can plug it into the unRaid server and mount via unassigned devices but as it's encrypted it won't be recognised. Is there a way to have unRaid either copy the encrypted files as is (I can copy off and unencrypt it at the Win 10 PC when needed) or Have veracrypt on unraid (via Docker or something) and copy the files onto the array unencrypted. Thanks, Josh

Hi all, older machine that I turn on and off occasionally but now considering running full time and looking at options regarding upgrading. I may need to go down that path as some of the HDDs are old. (still some 1.5TB HDDS!) but checking if it will also reduce my power draw. Currently draws around 80w at idle with array spun down (160w spun up): Pentium G4400 Asrock Z170 Extreme6+ (With M1015 x2 or whatever they were) 18 disks in array + 2 constant spin (Docker and VM) and 1x SSD Cache I think AX860 PSU??? or something. 3 Dockers (emoncms openhab & Database one) and 1 VM (Ubuntu Server) Norco 4224 Case with original fans. It all runs fine but thinking of moving to just HDDs off the motheboard (ie 5 array) but what can I expect power wise. I know the cost to upgrade isn't going to be recouped by energy savings but..... Will it be a big reduction? What are people getting? Hope it all makes sense. Thanks, Josh

@kaigauy are you backing up to unRaid protected array or elsewhere? Just a possible heads up for others: I get some vmdk errors with thin VM backing up as thin to unRaid server and it stops. https://communities.vmware.com/thread/329611 This seems to suggest if the NFS datastore can't support thin provisioning then backup may fail. If I backup the thin VM as zeroedthick it seems to work with this note popping up: DISKLIB-FLAT : Unable to reserve the space: The specified feature is not supported by this version. But the disk will be created: "/vmfs/volumes................VMNAME-flat.vmdk". It then keeps going along and you end up with the three files .vmx .vmdk -flat.vmdk (which is the big file) I haven't tried restoring from this but so far this is the only way to get a backup that runs through. I'll add more as I test more. Josh

Hey Kaiguy and others, Are you backing up as thin or zeroedthick in the ghettoVCB.sh file and are the VMDKs thin or thick? Thanks Josh

Have you made a custom plop iso that boots into USB? Josh

I've just finished moving my unRaid build inside a ESXi VM with new controllers as well. As mentioned you will need a controller you can pass through and VT-D. Take a screen shot of your array/disks first for backup. when you power up the VM just reassign the disks and you are good to go. With version 5 I don't think you even need to assign the disks. Josh

Okay at a pc now: Use chown to change the users to nobody chown nobody:users file.name Add -R if it is a directory and you want it to apply to all files chown -R nobody:users directory See how that goes. If you also need to mod permissions: chmod XXX file.name XXX is the octal that you need. 777 will work for everything but you probably don't need quite that much. Read this, it will explain it pretty well. http://www.linux.org/threads/file-permissions-chmod.4094/ -R after chomd for recursive to apply to all files. Josh

You have to chmod the files and then chown the file. I can't remember the exact command for chown as I need to see what the user is set as and I'm not near my pc. Sent by tapatalk

Hi All, I've just go me some M1015 SAS9220-8i and am about to flash the cards to IT mode. I've read a few of the pages but 45 is a lot. I'm going to follow the first post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12767.msg121131#msg121131 LSI Megaraid SAS2008 chip as from what I read that is what I need even for the SAS9220 Only thing I've noticed is the original zip files are running p10. Is this still enough or should I be trying for p17 on these and how would I do that? Thanks Josh

Thanks didn't even see that

Hi, Just a quick question with the SIL 3132 cards, you can get 2 sata port versions and 2 sata port plus 2 e-sata port versions. Does it matter which one? I won't be using e-sata so only using the 2 sata port one so there shouldn't be any bottlenecking. Thanks Josh

With the rackmount you could still have like 3x4u under the desk Josh

Brings back memories.... I remember building a wooden box for my computer once. Basically cut the carcass out of an old PC case (and the back part of the case so all the plugs and fans were still in the right place) and screwed it to a wooden board. Then made a wooden box to go over the top. I had a small slot cut out that allowed for a trayless dvd player and wired my own power button up. Can't really remember why I did that as a desktop case would have done exactly the same job and probably would have looked better too. mine looked like a piece of black spray painted junk. Why not try rackmounting on rails, could be neat tidy and accessable. Josh

hi all, Just a quick question with a drive I've just finished preclearing. I've precleared a few other disks that all came back looking fin from what I can tell but this one was different. It's telling me a SMART command failed. What does all this mean? thanks Josh =========================================================================== = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdd = cycle 1 of 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful. DONE = Disk Post-Clear-Read completed DONE Disk Temperature: 29C, Elapsed Time: 21:06:48 ============================================================================ == == Disk /dev/sdd has been successfully precleared == ============================================================================ S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem 18,28c18,97 < Error SMART Status command failed < Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ < Register values returned from SMART Status command are: < ST =0x40 < ERR=0x00 < NS =0x0c < SC =0x80 < CL =0x7a < CH =0xa8 < SEL=0x40 < A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. --- > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > General SMART Values: > Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity > was never started. > Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. > Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed > without error or no self-test has ever > been run. > Total time to complete Offline > data collection: (19176) seconds. > Offline data collection > capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. > Auto Offline data collection on/off support. > Suspend Offline collection upon new > command. > Offline surface scan supported. > Self-test supported. > Conveyance Self-test supported. > Selective Self-test supported. > SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering > power-saving mode. > Supports SMART auto save timer. > Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. > General Purpose Logging supported. > Short self-test routine > recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. > Extended self-test routine > recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. > Conveyance self-test routine > recommended polling time: ( 33) minutes. > SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported. > SCT Feature Control supported. > SCT Data Table supported. > > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 063 063 011 Pre-fail Always - 11790 > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 32 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 253 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0025 100 100 015 Pre-fail Offline - 0 > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0033 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 32 > 13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate 0x000e 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 183 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 071 067 000 Old_age Always - 29 (Lifetime Min/Max 28/33) > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 > > SMART Error Log Version: 1 > No Errors Logged > > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] > > > SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 > SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS > 1 0 0 Not_testing > 2 0 0 Not_testing > 3 0 0 Not_testing > 4 0 0 Not_testing > 5 0 0 Not_testing > Selective self-test flags (0x0): > After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. > If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. > ============================================================================ root@Tower:/boot/preclear_disk#

Thanks Xamindar for looking that up. That is my chip. Oh well, I'll wait and see what happens in future. I think I'll have to go back to playing with LinuxMCE. Thanks Josh

Thanks, Trying family `ITE'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0x8721 (logical device 4 has address 0x290, could be sensors) AMD K10 thermal sensors... Success! (driver `to-be-written') Just press ENTER to continue: That was the only response I got from sensors detect. I assume the AMD thermal sensor is for the CPU and ITE one might be it. To me it looks like no driver in my kernel. Thanks Josh

Hi all, If sensors-detect doesn't find the sensor does that mean I might need a full version of slackware? Thanks Josh

OK, pwmconfig shows no sensors loaded. sensor-detect shows: Trying family `ITE'... Yes Found unknown chip with ID 0x8721 (logical device 4 has address 0x290, could be sensors) AMD K10 thermal sensors... Success! (driver `to-be-written') Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `to-be-written' (should be inserted): Detects correctly: * Chip `AMD K10 thermal sensors' (confidence: 9) Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (yes/NO): yes Copy prog/init/lm_sensors.init to /etc/init.d/lm_sensors for initialization at boot time. You should now start the lm_sensors service to load the required kernel modules. I'm assuming I don't have the drivers for the sensor (running unRAID 4.5.6) Is this correct? If this means having to get a full version of slackware on here I'm going to give up as that is beyond my skills. Thanks Josh