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with that said, is there a process and commands via terminal to stop the array (clean), reboot (clean), and do a New Config?

I wish I could tell...when I press the "Log" link in the WebGUI, an empty window pops up...something is totally wonky with the WebGUI...can't even stop the array right now, and my IT guy there is waiting to put in some disks and go home...ugh.

While things with the WebGUI are working much better now, they are still not working perfectly, as they used to be. Like trying to invoke the Mover...when I press the MOVE NOW button, it ignores the click...the button will highlight on roll-over, but it won't actually invoke the operation...why could this be happening? I haven't even tried New Config yet, but chances are that it, also, will refuse to actually execute the command, like what was happening earlier today...and without New Config, I can't move on with what I'm planning to do. What could cause the WebGUI to only partially function...why do some functions work, while others do not? I mean, I can live without the Mover, for now, but I can't without the New Config. Is there a terminal command to do a New Config, and if so, what is it?

you are correct, Sir, but it gets a lot more complicated than that...I have drawn up a strategy that involves moving all of the drives in the array to new slots, and *also* upgrading some of them to larger drives, while *also* removing that pesky 6TB drive which I purchased used and which has been throwing errors every once in a while...so it's be a process that, according to my calculations, might take a week or two to complete, as parity will need to be re-calculated a few times over the course of this plan's execution. But I'll feel a lot better once parity has been upgraded to dual parity...so I'll do that first and then take it one step at a time after that...I'll probably have more questions that I will post here if/when the need arises, but thanks, so far, for confirming that my theory for upgrading to dual parity isn't totally off!

with that said, would it be possible to just stop the array, have him insert the two new 8TB parity drives in slots 14 and 15, do a new config and assign everything as it were, plus the two new parity drives, then calculate parity? I am aware of the risk during calculation (about 20hrs).

I guess the best answer to that is: it's an OCD thing I have parity in a slot I want to occupy with a data disk and move parity to the last slot in my server (slot 15) while also upgrading to dual parity (in slot 14), so that all my data drives can go from slot 01 to slot 13...yeah, I know, it's probably my German sense of order that's "making" me do this, but it also has the benefit of allowing me to ask people at the location to swap out a disk for me, when necessary and allowing them to just count the slots and get the right disk. please don't judge me for being an OCD German 😕

I just upgraded to 6.6.2 and am rebooting, just so that I'm on the newest OS...haven't been following closely enough, but maybe some bugs were squashed that affected me just now...who knows.

I shall do that, but let me ask you first: after the diags downloaded, the WebGUI is now behaving much better than it did before this last reboot...I was able to upgrade my plugins (which it didn't let me do before the last reboot). I don't wanna get this issue too convoluted, but I have to ask: since I want to upgrade from single to dual parity, and since I have the IT guy at the location in Berlin (I am in Loas Angeles right now) standing by, waiting for me to tell him the next step to physically execute, what is the way to do this next step? is it to do a New Config, then he removes the old parity drive, puts in the two new parity drives, then I re-assign all the drives and start the array or what? or is it foolish to do *anything* right now while I can't be sure that the New Config command will even execute via the WebGUI? should I try again, at least? is that even the right thing to do?

And just now, when I returned to my WebGUI and refreshed the Main tab, the diags downloaded...like 15mins after I issued the command. here they are. unraid-diagnostics-20181019-1729.zip

I'm in the process of trying to upgrade to dual-parity and doing a bunch of changes to my data-disk configuration (size upgrades and re-shuffling)...it'll be a lengthy process, but the dual parity is what I am trying to do first. But just as I am getting ready to do that, the WebGUI is starting to get all wonky on me. Right now, even after rebooting 3 times, I can't even generate a Diagnostic report...just like the New Config command from Tools, the WebGUI just sits there, acting like it will start downloading the Diagnostics, but never will. I have never seen this behaviour in all of the 10+ years of using unRAID and came up empty when searching for a terminal-based method of at least generating the Diag report...is there, so that there is even a basis to discuss here? All I can tell you right now is that I am on the latest stable version (it doesn't show in the WebGUI, but I think it is 6.6.1?) and that until yesterday, everything was zipping along just fine...nothing changed since yesterday, other than that I did a New Config, removed one disk from the configuration and let unRAID re-calculate parity overnight. Is there a way to get diagnostics via Terminal?

Thanks for confirming, jb.

That drive I foolishly picked up used on Amazon and which caused some issues right off the bat as chronicled in this thread, and which I got to "behave" for a while after a lot of help from the community, threw 4 errors again a few weeks ago and was disabled by unRAID. Being that the server is in Berlin and I in Los Angeles for the next 6 months or more, I stopped the array, un-assigned that disabled disk 3, started the array again, stopped it, re-assigned it, and waited until its content was rebuilt. Everything seemed fine for a few weeks now, but during a sync operation today from an iMac at my apartment in Berlin to my server, which is hosted at a friend's web-agency in Berlin, the sync process got hung up and when I looked into the cause of it, it turned out that disk 3 showed 4 errors and was disabled again. My gut feeling is that the drive is bad, but even if it is, is there a way to "fix" it by taking the offending sectors/blocks out of commission, so to say, or is that what unRAID or the drive's firmware or whatever is doing in the background already, and once these errors are being reported by unRAID the way they are now and the drive disabled, is that the point at which point it needs to be taken out of commission entirely? I included the unRAID diags and the SMART report, for all it's worth. unraid-diagnostics-20181008-0444.zip WDC_WD60EFRX-68MYMN1_WD-WXL1H642H7PL-20181008-0442.txt

what's the URL of the webGUI files, anyway? the webGUI folder in flash/config/plugins/webGui is empty.

While I appreciate these attempts to create a uniform identity for the unRAID website and webUI, I am also of the opinion that the 6.5 theme of the webUI agrees with my sense of aesthetics much better. If there were a way to turn the 6.5 UI into one of the options in Display Settings, I'd be quite happy about it. The new theme is too stark, to my eyes, and much less elegant. It is this subtle elegance which I have come to appreciate about the 6.5 theme...its better readability, the result of a more plain font and less extreme color contrasts, and its color choices which elicited a more airy look and feel (black and orange are by nature more aggressive than green, white and grey). What's the feasibility of including the 6.5 theme as a display option again? Is there a tutorial for creating custom themes for unRAID anywhere? I'd love to take a shot at it, just to see what's possible. As a UI/UX designer myself, even though I can appreciate the importance of maintaining a consistent corporate ID when it comes to the various products of a company, I also love the challenge of working within those confines and explore how one can work within those confines to come up with something that may be more agreeable than what the company initially intended or came up with. There is nothing inherently wrong with orange and black, but having an all-black header background sets an extreme stage for the menu-system of the 6.6 webUI. The other options have other issues, such as the gradated drop-downs which look downright gaudy to me...very 90's. Well, it was pointed out that the design team didn't have the time necessary to complete their vision, so maybe things will improve (I trust that they will, as most things tend to do with unRAID development from version to version), but if there is a way to take matters into ones own hands and instructions exist about how to accomplish this, I'd love for someone to point me in the right direction.

No word back yet from the IT at the agency where my unRAID system sits, and without his help I'm a bit at a loss of how much I can do to get this working properly. Another question: When it *does* work as designed, meaning without an additional OpenVPN connection running concurrently, is it possible then to reach my iMac5K, which is my main workstation, from the outside world, so that I can remote control it (I use the "Screens" app) to sync large amounts of data from my home-office network to my unRAID system? The issue right now is that I can only mount the unRAID shares on my iMac5K when I also have the OpenVPN connection running, but when the OpenVPN connection is running, I don't think that I can see my iMac5K from the outside world anymore...and since only one concurrent OpenVPN connection to my unRAID server is allowed, I can't also connect my rMBP to it, which I use to remote control my iMac5K to sync data with my unRAID system. Was that too confusing?

By static I meant an IP from one of the blocks they lease from their bandwidth provider. I forwarded some of your links to their IT to ask for help...there is only so much I can say or do without knowing what he did on their firewall end. I doubt that he'll open up specific ports for me, but who knows, maybe he will. In any case, I hope that I can get to the point of using ZeroTier as the only means of accessing all of my unRAID assets from the outside, in hope of then also being able to run the Let's Encrypt docker and serve one of my websites from my unRAID, pending the proper security measures that will need to be implemented. The Let's Encrypt docker support thread here on the unRAID forum appears to hold a ton of information and discourse about that topic, so it seems to be possible to safely serve a site from an unRAID system.

beginning to read through the first link you posted, it deals at length with the principle of NAT...since I have been assigned a static IP address by the web-agency where my unRAID system is hosted, the questions beckons: is there an inherent issue with using ZeroTier on machines that don't use NAT but a static IP address, maybe? is there something specific the IT guy at the web-agency needs to do in order to allow ZeroTier to do the job all on its own? guess I'll keep on reading, in the meantime.

Thanks for clarifying, Dmitry. Interesting...I *wish* ZeroTier could do the job all on its own, but I do have to use OpenVPN (or Viscosity, as of late) to create a connection to my server *first* in order to be able to access my shares. When I have a little more time than I do right now, I shall follow your links and see whether the troubleshooting tips get me a step closer to figuring out why, in my setup, this isn't happening. It would be too cool if I could access all my unRAID resources locally by using *only* ZeroTier. Since the IT at the web-agency where my unRAID server is located had to create a custom openVPN certificate for me, is there a way to read such a cert into ZeroTier, and make it work that way, maybe?

Yeah, after reading up on it, I do understand that it’s not deduplicating files. one way or another, though, I doubt that trying to upload all of that data to the cloud (*any* cloud) again, will cost me months of my precious life...again.

Thank you so much for making this Docker! I'm new to ZeroTier and was so excited to find this! I do have a question/issue, though... normally I use Tunnelblick to connect to my unRAID server, which is hosted a a friend's web-agency here in Berlin, with an OpenVPN profile that his IT has created for me. until I installed and configured your Docker, I had to connect to the network the IT set up for me with Tunnelblick (internal IP is 172.25.123.123 there) and mount my unRAID with the Mac Finder's "Connect to Server..." menu item...always worked well. I notice that with ZeroTier running, the unRAID system appears both as an SMB and AFP share (the SMB share shows all user and disk shares, the AFP share only the unRAID user share) and also connects fine. my question: is it expected behaviour that I can only access my unRAID system when the Tunnelblick OpenVPN certificate is *also* running? I had hoped that ZeroTier alone might be enough to connect, but I guess it makes sense that I will still need to penetrate their Firewall by means of the OpenVPN cert first, in order to *then* take advantage of ZeroTier's features...or might there be something that their IT can do in order to combine the two into one, so that ZeroTier alone would get me there? I only ask because of the inconvenience of using Tunnelblick and losing many of my normal internet connections in the process, while being logged into their/my network there.

No, I have not yet talked to CP support about that possibility. Frankly, I have wasted so much of my life, these past few years, uploading 18TB of data into the cloud only to find that unlimited plans would turn into 5TB plans overnight (I'm looking at you, Bitcasa), or companies just go broke and go away, or what have ya, that I am taking a break from banging my head against the wall...when upload speeds of at least 5MB/sec. become the norm, I might take another look, but until then it is an exercise in futility.

well, since *all* of my 20TB of data is unique and original content that was created as part of over 20 years worth of productions, there is nothing to deduplicate (I have done my own deduplication of photos and other assets over the years), so the equation is pretty easy: 20TB = 20,000GB @ 1GB/hr = 20,000hrs = 833.33 days = 2.28 years ?

When you get this working, Djoss, would you mind telling me/us what upload performance you're getting? I cancelled my subscription for a refund after seeing that it took 15hrs for a 14GB folder, on a symmetrical 500Mbit connection. I wish it wasn't so, bc I don't see another unlimited solution out there, and certainly none that is supported with a nice unRAID container such as this one.

just finished getting a Windows 10 VM to work again, although I did have to start installing from scratch...not sure what was wrong with my other one, but I had to trash it. thanks to SpaceInvader One's excellent YouTube tutorial, this new one is running better than the previous ever did...what an excellent tutorial! after midnight here in Germany, but so worth the few hours of work on this. g'nite everyone, over and out...

and right you are, itimpi...now that you mention it, that was kind of the problem last year as well, until I went thourgh half a dozen VNC clients until I settled on "Screens" to connect with my VM. and low and behold, I was able to connect with Screens, yet again...only to find that there is something wrong with the actual VM itself, but at least I am now able to connect with it and will try to take it from here, maybe open another discussion if there is something specific I can't figure out. thank you itimpi for reminding me!