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So the more I think about this the more I think for the moment I will have cat6a used for the new drops, if in the future they need to be upgraded I can do that myself, once the new drops are in plae, it is not a huge job to pull new cable with the old drops already in place. I also think I may just go with 2.5g NICs and switch, I have watched my main PC simply copy files between two spinning drives and the speeds do not justify a 10g network right out the gate. Thank you all for your input

Btw, there is only a single machine in another room that I would like to hook up, the main 3 machines are all in the same office, so fiber would be an option for those machines. I am in the process of getting new cat6a drops in the room I have that PC, but the main contender for doing the work has stated they don't work with fiber. I am wondering if I bought a run of fiber cable would they just pull it at the same time as the other drop of cat6 and no need for termination etc. From this thread I think I will explore that option.

On the TP-Link switch, I did see one person say the switch was fiber only but I then saw several others say that it worked fine with RJ45 transceivers. I also did a quick Reddit search on the switch and there are also folk using the switch with 10gbe RJ45 tranceivers. From reading on Reddit it seems that it depends more on the transceiver rather than the switch to get things working. Here is the link to the Reddit discussion I read:

So with idle connected Cat to the 10g switch, it overheated? Is it the Cloud Router Switch in the picture? What brand is it? How old? I am wondering if it is just a design flaw in that model. The switch I was considering was the TP-Link TL-SX3008F which has 8 SFP ports but is a full 1U rack size, so it may also have a fan inside to keep it cool, which is not an issue as it would sit below my Unraid server which already has fans that would be loud enough regardless.

Thanks for the insight, I can go fiber for the two servers as they are in the same rack. For the rest of the network which I am also in the process of upgrading, my livingroom PC is in a different room and so Cat6/6a is my only choice. In general the livingroom PC would just be used to drop files onto the server and so there would be no long sustained loads on that connection. I was unaware that Cat6 (or is it just the Cat6 transceivers?) get hot and use a lot more power? Patrick

Hi all, so I am in the process of setting up a 10g connection between my main server and backup server. My thought is, what I need is a 10g switch and then connect both servers via the switch and they should connect at 10g, correct? I am looking at the TP-Link TL-SX3008F which has 8 sfp+ 10g ports, to connect the two servers I believe I can add a couple of 10g NICs with SFP+ ports and then two SFP+ 10g cables.("Mellanox MCX312B-XCCT CX312B ConnectX-3 EN Pro 10GbE SFP+ Dual-Port PCIe NIC") My router has only 2.5g ports, but I don't think it will impact, correct?? As long as I have the two servers connected via the 10g switch?| Patrick

Rebuild completed without issue. Thank you for the help. Patrick

So a hard restart, check parity and then rebuild?

So I was doing a disk rebuild (upgrading the last of my 8tb drives to 14tb) and now Unraid is unreachable. I have tried putty with no success. I have also tried hitting the power button, as in the past when Unraid has crashed it actually went into a restart and sat on the bios screen. When I went to bed last night, the rebuild said it had 15 hours left and so theoretically the machine was mid rebuild when it became non-responsive. Any ideas other than doing a hard reset of the server? I have the old drive, so theoretically I could replace the old drive, do a parity recheck and then swap drives again and do the rebuild.

Well rsync finished (I restarted it in a putty session this time lol). Everything finished syncing and I checked the original disk file system and it was fine. So the old drive does not seem to have been the cause. I did a new XFS File check once everything was synced with the old drive and it came back fine. Thank you JorgeB for all your help, it is very much appreciated. Patrick

So I went to bed last night and left the machine running that had Unraid terminal up running rsync. During the night that machine went to sleep. Did this stop rsync or is there a way to see what rsync is still doing?

One last question, once I run the above command and I go to a different PC, can I monitor it from that other PC or doI have to keep an active session on the machine I originally started it from?

Ugh, sorry a typo it should have been just rsync -av /mnt/disks/17SGUHZ6C/ /mnt/disk3/

So the Rsync command below is what I am about to run, from what I am reading on rsync, the -av is just a command to preserve the data on the destination disk (v being verbose). the next part (/mnt/disks/17SGUHZ6C/) is the source to copy from and the next part followed by a space is the destination (/mnt/disks/17SGUHZ6C/). A little nervous running this, but it all seems to make sense . rsync -av /mnt/disks/17SGUHZ6C/ c

I am not clear on what you mean about change XFS UUID first, I selected Change UUID and changed it but I don't see a difference? What is this part doing? Sorry for all the questions

So for the UD_Name , is it the partition name? in this case partition name is 17SGUHZ6C. If I don't include delete in the rsync command above it will leave all the files in the lost+founb folder, but everything else will be synced?

Sorry, I am not clear. For the New Config, are you saying that would work? For Rsync, mount the old drive in the main server, mount with unassigned devices and then rsync the two drives? I have never used Rsync. For the Rsync option, I presume it syncs in only one direction? i.e. takes all the data on the old drive and makes sure it is synced with the new drive. Once Rsync is complete I can just delete the lost+found folder or back it up somewhere if I am just paranoid?

So I have a lot of files in the lost+found. I have the original disk and I have a 2nd UNRAID server that it can run in. What would be the best way to recover the files back to disk 3 and their correct folders? Would doing a new config with the original drive work? I know it would break parity but at present the parity is matching to the lost+found data which is not where those files should be. Thoughts?

So that is how I originally ran the disk check and I do not see a lost+found folder when I started the array. (I ran the check disk in maintenance mode as per SpaceInvader video).

So disk 3 is the disk I did the rebuild on. So I ran the check disk in the default dry run mode and I am seeing results like what is below. Does this mean it will delete that filesystem record and so the file itself will be gone? entry "addons" in shortform directory 13133649192 references non-existent inode 17179871630 would have junked entry "addons" in directory inode 13133649192

I just finished doing a drive replacement (upgraded a drive from 8tb to 14tb) and now all my Shares are missing. I restarted the server a couple of times with no success but in the log I am seeing the error below. Dec 16 06:06:59 UNRAID emhttpd: error: get_filesystem_status, 6280: Structure needs cleaning (117): scandir Structure needs cleaning I have also attached the system diagnostics file. unraid-diagnostics-20221216-0604.zip

So I just ran the same command on the main server and one of the cards on that server also is downgraded to x4. I never noticed this, due to having two cards in that server made it a non-issue.

Well as luck would have it, I have a second 310 which I just swapped in. It shows: LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s, Width x8 TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- So I guess it is the 310 which has an issue. I wonder what could be causing it's connection to downgrade? The main server has two 310s also, as my original goal was to have the test server with a similar setup to the main server.

Well I pulled the SAS expander and powered it with a molex, that had no effect on the x4 downgrade. I also moved the 310 to a different slot and got the same results, Could the cpu be causing the downgrade? It is only a dual core i3 that is in the test machine.

I already have the 310 installed in the x16 slot. This is a test setup and I have another board and cpu I can throw into this server to test with. I will do that and report back my findings. Otherwise, if it is not a board issue, why would the 310 get downgraded to x4 instead of it's max x16?