Arioch5

I've got an Antec 1200, with 2 iStar 5-in-3 Drive Chassis installed. There is room for 2 more in the case that I never expanded to. The motherboard has 6 SATA and I've got a SAS to SATA card with 4 of the 8 expansions used to cover the 10 drives for the cages. That leaves 4 SATA cables still available, although you would have to install internally or add another drive cage. The system was pulled working, but I want to be clear I haven't tested it in a while. I'd sell the whole thing together cables and all or I'll pull out the guts and ship just the case and drive cages if you prefer. Price is the same, consider the motherboard, power, cables, extra nic, etc as a bonus. They should work, but I don't want to charge for them in case there's an issue. The only difference will be shipping. I last used with Unraid 5 I believe, but all of the hardware was supported then I would be surprised if it regressed. I'd like $300 for the whole thing, plus shipping. Shipping ranges from $40 to $90 via USPS ground and I would ship FedEx or UPS as well. Box is 45 pounds, dimensions are 35x23x12 inches coming from zip code 35758. If you happen to be in the south east (Huntsville, AL area) pickup would be fine as well. Sorry I'm not shipping outside the US. I'll accept paypal, google pay, or cash if doing a local pickup.

To each his own, but there have been both cloud and home server options discussed. I personally have someone I can swap space with for off-site so I'm looking for non-hosted solutions myself. I would point out that good encryption is still as far as we can tell safe against even the most advanced attacker. Storing pre-encrypted files on a cloud provider isn't necessarily insecure. If you're concerned with nation state style attacks on your encryption, you should consider if your off-site server can really withstand that sort of attack as well because odds are it can't.

So far I've seen. https://github.com/borgbackup/borg https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati Both open source alternatives that seem to support most of the features I would want. I don't have experience with either of the above, but I do have experience with Mono and duplicati is .Net so I would prefer to avoid it unless someone has a compelling reason it's a better choice. Borg looks fairly good, and I would think the plugin system in Unraid would make setup fairly painless even with out a gui. Including a free dynamic dns services in the container/plugin with borg would IMO be a fairly good alternative.

New drive is in, parity rebuilt and sync showed no errors. I have a video which was being watched when I noticed this that appears to now be corrupt. Is that coincidence or did the parity copy a bad sector to the data disk? If it was a bad 'correction' from parity how do I detect and avoid that in the future? I don't think the monthly parity check includes sync errors in the email so I kind of feel like it's a silent failure that could cause data corruption.

Ah thanks, read that from my phone so I didn't notice that. Thanks! New hard drive it is.

I see, I didn't realize that. It looks like you've highlighted a single read error. Is that enough (threshold of 0)) to call the drive a problem? Sounds like I could do one more cable swap and long test but the parity drive need to be replaced. Is that an accurate understanding?

Both long smart tests attached, both passed. Not sure what I do now. long-smart-parity.TXT long-smart-disk4.TXT

I've replaced the cable on the parity drive though it was not obviously loose this at least eliminates the cable as a suspect. Brand new cable was sitting in the closet in it's original bag, although it doesn't have the clip to hold it in like the old cable. I also pushed on all the cables at both ends to insure a tight fit while I was there. Attached are smart reports pre and post cable change on the parity and disk4. None of the smart tests come up with errors and I see no change before and after the cable change. I'm now running a long test on both disks in question. Here's my guess from here, is this accurate? One smart test fails (yea!) [*]Replace failed drive [*]Rebuild parity Neither smart test fails [*]Run riserfsck on disk4 (not parity!) [*]Wait for further instructions? I'm unclear about how the riserfsck works and wonder if I messed up doing this a few months ago. When doing the riserfsck since the parity drive is still in use, if there was a bad cable or a failing parity drive wouldn't unraid 'correct' the disk 4 data with what's on the parity causing riserfsck to call for a repair when really the parity was at falt? I'm unclear what to do about a file system corruption when there are sync errors with the parity drive. It seems to me at some point here I'm going to have to call one of the drives 'good' and the other 'bad'. Since last time I just repaired Disk 4 (files vanished), and the smart report on parity has more questionable items I'd lean toward calling parity wrong. How does that fit into the riserfsck and my next steps? Thanks for the help, thought I had this licked so I just want be sure I've got some advice this time around to get it done right. Really don't want be here the 1st of Sep b/c my monthly parity has failed smart-disk4-pre.TXT smart-disk4-post.TXT smart-parity-pre.TXT smart-parity-post.TXT

Sitting at ~60% complete on the parity check and I've already got 2150 sync errors reported. Attached is the log since I rebooted and started the sync today. This morning I noticed this b/c a movie my daughter was watching stopped playing 1/2 way through. When I pulled it up on my desktop I couldn't even open the move. I just checked and I can now play (at least the beginning) of the movie. That could be due to the reboot or the parity check I'm not sure. I'm not clear as to weather this parity check is doing a 'no-repair' or a 'repair' parity check. I'm running version 4.7. I'd like to go ahead and cancel the parity check, replace the cable on the parity drive, start a smartctl test and get those results. Is that something I can do right now? I'd like to handle as much of this today as I can since it will have to be offline Monday while I'm at work and my family has become use to having access to their movies. We don't even have a DVD player in front of most of our TV's anymore. syslog-restart.txt

I'm not sure what the duplicate files are about, but looking at what's duplicates those are the files I restored from the last file system error. I thought the parity looked suspicious. What's the proper plan of attack from here? My wife isn't gonna be to happy if I let this repeat in the next 60-days again. I'm guessing: [*]Let the Parity check finish [*]Replace parity disk cable [*]Run long smart check on parity disk? Am I on the right track for best shot at keeping my files? Should I worry about the duplicates or wait until the parity has no sync errors first?

A few months ago (early June) I had a large number of parity errors. Eventually the processes ended in running riserfsck and loosing some files. Fortunately, I have some off site backups I was able to restore from. Today I found a file on my system inaccessible. Going to the Unraid page show's the last parity check (8/1/12) had a couple thousand parity errors which I assume were corrected. I'm re-running the parity check today but I'm very concerned that the drives remain online yet I seem to be regularly failing parity checks and it looks like I'm about to have more data loss with a file system corruption. I've attached the syslog and smart reports from the parity and (currently) affected disk. Both failures have now been reported on this disk, though it contains the bulk of the data so parity problems would likely result in errors on this disk. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've had a disk failure before, but this is the first in ... some 6 or 7 years of unraid I've had these file system corruptions. I'll report on the parity check status as well as a report on disk4 riserfs later. This parity will take 7-8 hours to finish. Here is a pastbin of the end of the syslog (full attached): http://pastebin.com/3UGEcd2i syslog.zip smart-parity.txt smart-disk4.txt

And after an all night check, one file was recovered in lost and found. Others seem to be intact, and I see a few missing. Photos look good and they are off-sight backup so I'll probably restore them just to be sure.

So maybe it's just getting to late but somehow I missed this: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Check_Disk_Filesystems I'm doing a check now, maybe all my jabbering in this thread will help out the next person who run across this.

Just trying to figure out what more I can look at, here are the dmsg and syslog from my most recent reboot. I've replaced the bzimage and bzroot with a fresh download to insure there wasn't a file system problem causing ro mounting during boot. dmsg.txt syslog.txt

Version 4.7, and I haven't upgraded in quite some time. There was an automatic resync done this morning (1st of the month) and it passed.