unRaidMe

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  1. What do you mean by clean builds? Also, is there a way to detect if the files have already been downloaded? Upon subsequent running(s) of the script, it redownloads them with a .1 or .2 etc appended to the file name. Thanks!
  2. Should I wait for you to finish making the changes? Will commenting out the par2_tbb line affect anything?
  3. My guess is that the script is unable to download the last prerequisite file: http://chuchusoft.com/par2_tbb/par2cmdline-0.4-tbb-20090203-lin32.tar.gz as that is the only file not showing up when I ls the packages directory and I cannot load it in my browser to download manually. It seems the whole chuchusoft.com website is down...
  4. What's the difference between this and the unmenu packages? I ran the script and it was stuck at "Downloading Prerequisites --" for a while until I stopped it... is the downloading supposed to take a while?
  5. I reserved the IP Address on my DHCP server/router and then modified the hosts file on my mac and I can now resolve the hostname when accessing NFS. Thanks!
  6. Strangely, the hostname resolves when connecting to SMB but not NFS.
  7. Thanks! I'm glad you shared about iperf! Do you know if there's anything I can do about the hostname not resolving? Would it be better to hard code a static IP instead of having the unRaid get it dynamically assigned through DHCP?
  8. If you don't want to mess with setting up your shares as NFS, there is a simpler "hack" I came across: just enable "Internet Sharing." You can even turn off your AirPort after setting up Internet Sharing through your AirPort. I was getting over 40MB/s both reading and writing just by enabling "Internet Sharing" and connecting to smb://tower/ShareName
  9. [sOLVED] I had to set my share as NFS and connect the share as NFS. Now it's writing at around 50MB/s and reading at around 74MB/s... much faster! While I'm glad I am getting my unRaid up to speed, so to speak, I am having to read a lot to find out that there are different connection types: NFS, AFP, SMB, etc... I don't know what any of it means and just follow what works for others. I'm glad others have posted their solutions, though! Just for reference, to set up your shares for NFS: Go to the unRaid web interface and go to Shares: In the shares you want to access via NFS, in each "Export (NFS):" input box, type: "*(rw,insecure)" then click "Apply" On your Mac, open "Disk Utility" and go to "File->NFS Mounts..." Click the plus sign and under "Remote NFS URL:" type in "nfs://IPaddress/mnt/user/ShareName" and under "Mount location:" type "/Volumes/ShareName" making sure that you type the same ShareName for each input. For some reason, it doesn't like me putting in "tower" and only finds the NFS with the IP address. I know it will create problems when I restart my switch and router and it assignes a different IP to the unRaid Any solutions for this? Click Verify and you should get confirmation that your Mac can connect to the NFS In Finder, click "Go->Connect to Server..." and type in "nfs://IPaddress/mnt/user/ShareName" exactly as you did in Disk Utility And voila! You are now connected via NFS and should experience faster data transfers! Also, for my own reference, it looks like AFP might be better but you have to wait for version 5 of unRaid as it is currently in beta right now and not recommended for production use (unRaid 5beta, that is, not AFP, to clear up any confusion) Hope my headaches are helping others!
  10. No worries. I'm glad that I can get it working Thanks again for creating the package!
  11. I would have thought that re-installing with the edited variables would update the changes but I guess not... at least I don't have to reboot the server whenever I make changes.
  12. I'm running unRAID Version 4.7. I've got 3 Hitachi 5K3000 2TB drives but only 2 assigned as data drives and the third idle and ready to be used as parity once the data is populated. My Mac Pro is running OSX 10.6.7 My WinXP laptop only has 100Mbps ethernet so that only goes at 83.6Mb/s and only about 20Mb/s on wireless
  13. Thanks for posting this! I've been wondering how I could test my network speed because data transfers seem to be slow. I haven't set up a parity drive yet and writing seems to go at about 19MB/s and I've read from the unRaid at about 39MB/s. When I run iperf, I get 935Mb/s, which is over 110MB/s: When I was preclearing my drives, they were going between 70-110MB/s depending on the progress. Any ideas as to what I can do to improve performance? I am wanting to use unRaid mainly to backup my massive video editing projects so performance is a big priority. My main computer is a Mac Pro if that factors into anything. Thanks!
  14. I found "Start AirVideo" and "Stop AirVideo" under "User Scripts" in unMenu and Stopped then Started AirVideo and the folder list is now updated
  15. I changed the "folders:" in Edit Configuration Variables, clicked "Save New Values", then "Re-Install Now with Edited Variables", and finally "Re-Install on Re-Boot." However, when I go into the AirVideo app, click on my server, the new folders don't show up even after clicking the refresh button. Do I have to reboot the unRaid server for the changes to take place or is there something else I need to do? Thanks!
  16. Thanks, mbryanr! Looks like you beat me to posting the solution! Love all the help on this forum!!!
  17. Nevermind, I just deleted the share name and then hit Apply. Easy peasy!
  18. How do I remove the Movies, Pictures, and Music shares from showing up in the Shares section? Deleting the folder doesn't do it. Thanks!
  19. Brilliant! I didn't realize I could access the whole disk!
  20. I'm a newbie to all this and have found the support here to be phenomenal. People on this board are very friendly and helpful as long as you show that you are trying and doing your best to learn the ropes. I think you'll like it here as it seems you have much more experience with this sort of thing and I'm sure many people would appreciate your script contributions when you share them! I am thankful that there are so many mature and knowledgeable people on this forum that haven't found it tiresome and annoying to help out newbies like me.
  21. I'm on my way to populate my unRaid server with data before setting up the parity drive but I think I'm creating too many shares... is there any way I can consolidate the shares so that I don't have to connect to so many different shares? I made a Movies, Music, and Pictures share folders (along with several others for other purposes like backup) but I think I want to put them all under one share called Media (with split level 2) instead of 3 separate shares (with split level 1). Another question: How are you guys setting up your shares? Thanks!
  22. Do you have to "Enable Re-Install on Re-Boot" for the AirVideo package?
  23. I'm going through the configuration tutorial and am in the process of preclearing my 3 hard drives... where can we make suggestions to the Configuration Tutorial? It is mentioned to suggest improvements for clarity but I don't know where to do that. Some suggestions: Explain what 4K-aligned means and its advantages. From reading the forums, it seems to help performance... that's all I know about it Suggest to set in Settings page, Disk Settings > Default partition format: to MBR: 4K-aligned so that when you invoke the preclear script as written in the tutorial, it will default to 4K-aligned instead of having to type the -A flag, which you wouldn't know about unless you read the forum Note that running preclear on several drives saves you time compared to running them individually and waiting for each drive to preclear one at a time. I thought it would be faster to do one at a time and then started the preclear on the other drives just to see what would happen and all 3 drives were reading at over 100MB/s during the Disk Pre-Read. So you should install Screen and run all preclears simultaneously! Thank you to all those who wrote the Configuration Tutorial!!! It is helping my unRaid server get up on its feet.
  24. Yay! After a long ordeal of Supermicro shipping my motherboard to the wrong address and then sending me a new motherboard, I got the system to boot up! I'm now running the preclear script on my 3 5K3000 hard drives... I guess I have like 30 hours to wait until it finishes.... *twiddling thumbs but happy*