gundamguy

I agree with Jonathanm during your move process you must have introduced something like. /mnt/diskX/disk2/ resulting in automatic creation of the user share /mnt/user/disk2/ User shares are simply the aggregate top level disk folders. IE: a share named Video is /mnt/user/Video which is the aggregate of /mnt/disk1/Video and /mnt/disk2/Video and so on for each disk... (including the cache disk) there is also a user share called user0 that doesn't include the cache disk. This is a requirement of Mover. So if you want to fix your directories I recommend working on a disk level and moving the data around. NOTE NEVER EVER do a move or copy (or anything) form /mnt/diskx/XXXX to /mnt/user/XXXX (or user0 or vice versa) this will likely clobber your data due to an inode difference between the FUSE file system and normal file system (causing an overwrite of the file you are copying resulting in an error and data loss)

I don't really agree with this because this is akin to saying that having one infected computer on your network is OK as long as it's only that one.... Sure a VM that's jailed off would be "fine" but considering you asked about smb I'm wondering just how jailed your VM will be...

I've been meaning to ask this question for a while, but have put it off way to long. Currently I don't have a password or pre-shared key for logging into my unRAID tower over ssh. (I'm also not sure that Telnet is disabled...) I'm not forwarding any ports expect for the port for Plex. At one point I did change the root password for unRAID under the user menu, but I got frustrated by having to log into the webgui all the time. It's just me and my wife on my home network so I don't really feel like I need to lock the webgui down. Is there someway to disable Telnet and require a password (or pre-shared key or something else) with SSH without requiring logging into the unRAID webgui? Also I usually use Putty on Windows, is there a way to use pre-shared keys with Putty?

I've heard of people running pfsense in a vm to handle routing needs. I'm not 100% sure I'd recommend it though.

I would email one of the staff members at LimeTechnology, or [email protected] (generic account that's likely sent to 2-3 people) about your USB key situation. I'm sure they'll be pretty understanding. That said you should buy the new USB first, and get your system set up in trial mode so that you can get the identifier number they'll need to issue you a new key. Also no unraid can't really be installed to a hard disk... well I guess that's not true it could in theory be installed to a non-array hard disk or cache only drive... (I'm not sure of the value of doing this in practice) if it were on a data drive, it would really slow down the array and require a lot of parity writes all of the time.

These are really for keeping track of your physical assets. I also have all of my movies on Plex, so I can take them anywhere, etc. But I also want to keep tabs on what physical things I have. Sort of like a catalogue. It's basically just a database that is smart and pulls metadata much like how Plex does, but without the playback abilities. I looked at Libib over the weekend. It seems pretty good. Has a great android/ios app that makes scanning in books etc. quick and easy... however I hate that the premium account is has either a monthly or yearly fee, that you can't pay for lifetime service up front (which I would be way more cool with) and that your library is really only resident on there server (you can download a CSV file but that's pretty weak in comparison)

I personally use my Cyberpower UPC to check power usage, but I don't do it very often and it's not super important to me. I'm not sure if there is slackware package (64 bit for 6.0+) for powertop... if there is you could install it. Now this actually does sound like a configuration issue, I'm not sure what it is as I don't use unRAID with a Mac, but I know other people do use it here, and that they don't seem to have this problem. Maybe one of them can chime in and help you diagnose what is going on.

I'll look into libib. Delicious Library sounds really good but I don't really have access to OSX... well maybe... I'll look into it a bit more.

I'm looking for some software that I can use to quickly build a personal library. Does anyone use anything that allows you to scan new games, movies, books into a visual database, and if so what? I'd prefer a windows solution if possible...

Turn on turbo write. You may see better real life impact. Turbo Write isn't perfect for everyone. I for example would rather have all but 2 disks spun down.

Well sorry to hear that. I edited my post. I'm not sure why I couldn't find the instructions on the wiki, maybe I was searching the wrong term.

Pure speculation, but is it possible there is an issue with the USB drive (improper format, greater then 32gb, corruption, etc.) that might cause this weird behavior? Also tell us more about your hardware, Motherboard, Controller Cards, etc.

This is not a setup that's current supported by default. However you can set this up using the unassigned devices plugin to mount the non-cache VM drive.

Well, here is what I would recommend, because that's a bit unwieldy. I'd recommend creating a parent directory for all your download directories, and giving that to the docker... then you can add any number of children directories without having to reconfig your docker. IE: /mnt/user/downloads is the parent and what you give to docker /mnt/user/downloads/folder1 /mnt/user/downloads/folder2 /mnt/user/downloads/folder3...folder Are all useable and you don't have to change your settings to get access to those folders... Does that make sense?

I'm pretty sure the problem is that even the help is confusing if you don't understand the structure of unRAID.

I don't think that would happen, but it is possible that it's over heating.

Yes, basically is what I do. Download some files and copy to the shares. In the case I got a ramsomware and it encrypts my crashplan share, the cloud copy will also be update with the encrypted files? Gus Yeah, that really bothers me. If you have automatic backups set up, then it can potentially ruin the backups as well Not really... That would constitute a change to an existin file so versioning would you allow to go back to previous version.. which would be non-encrypted.. Not every backup has versioning... which I think is very important for the reason you pointed out. Based on this thread I have two main points now: 1) Make sure any auto Backups have versioning. 2) Lock of the shares you can by making the SMB share Read-Only. When you need to do a write unlock the shares by making them Read Write first or do it via command line. IF you unlocked it, re-lock it afterword.

You should try plugging the USB drive into a windows PC and running check disk on it. It's very likely that the sudden loss of power resulted in corruption of the operating system.

The really good question is why did the permissions get mixed up in the first place. Suggestion look at the programs that you might have downloading and moving things around...

it is really up to you. Disabling parity speeds up the process but lleaves you susceptible to data loss if a disk fails (and you are probably working the system harder than normal during this process). I think most people leave parity enabled for safety as it can be a long process from a time-elapsed perspective. Typically a copy is started and then left to run while you get on with something else. I'm going to follow this up and say, if you've got good backups or this is only a backup server (I think you said that) then I think you are at very low risk of data loss if you disable the parity when you are copying the data on the drive.

At this point I'm pretty sure the docker location is what's keeping parity and disk 1 spun up. If that's the only issue then Disk 1 and Parity should start spinning down as you expect. Plex might not be an issue for you at all. As to why SDB isn't spinning down, what's on SDB, just data, or data and applications configurations etc?

First, why not set one of your 3 unassigned devices disks as a cache disk in unRAID? 1: This is telling me that your config is being stored in RAM by mistake. You should make an Applications folder on the disk you want to remain spun up (on a Cache disk [Cache Only Share], or Unassigned Devices Disk) and point your configs at that folder. 2: Parity and Disk 1 are connected and likely one configuration issue. The USB is likely another configuration issue. Some of these applications have settings which can keep the disks spun up. Plex will scan for new media every few hours if you don't disable that in the settings... but more importantly we need to know about the configuration files and where they are stored. 3: Given what you want it to be doing and what it is instead doing, no I don't think it's configured right.

Link to Unassigned Devices. I'm not an expert on BTRFS but I think the real trick is that BTRFS stripes both data and metadata, by the default for BTRFS is Data = RAID 0 Metadata = RAID 1, for Unraid it's set as RAID 1, RAID 1, which might explain what it's doing... I don't think you can use that full 180 GB for data. Not really sure. I'm running with 2 equally sized cache disks so I don't really know.

It's not 360GB because it's the default settings for cache pools is as a RAID 1 not RAID 0. The original point of adding BTRFS and cache pool capabilities was to add redundancy for cache drives so data sitting on the cache drive was protected from drive failure. You can change it to a RAID 0 pool if you want though. Ah, that makes sense. Hmm, if its raid 1, then shouldnt it say 120GB though (size of the smallest drive)? Where would i change this Raid 1 -> Raid 0 setting? Also, out of curiosity. I plan on installing couple of VMs (windows) on this machine (which will run purely on the cache). I do like the Raid 1 Redundancy for the cache for the main data drive pool, but its not necessary for the VMs. Is there any way for me to add a seperate drive for the VMs that is outside of the main cache pool? Also, what happens if i add few drives to the cache pool while it remains in Raid 1. Say 2x 240GB SSDs and 2x 1TB Spinny Drives. What sort of a cache pool monstrosity would i get, and what sort of pool size would it be? Good questions: Why it's not 120GB, because it's not a traditional RAID 1, it's BTRFS "RAID 1", and BTRFS does things a bit differently then standard RAID. You could add the disk in another way, possibly though the unassigned devices plugin. As far as I know there is no way to have a mix of cache pool and non-cache pool disks at this time... (intresting idea though...) You can change the command next to the button marked balance, then hit balance to run the balance command with the new settings to re-balance into another "BTRFS raid Level"... but this really isn't official supported. I'm not sure what will happen honestly... but this BTRFS space calculator might help.

1-4 are the same procedure. Here are the directions from the FAQ. There is a special case also if you want to replace a data drive with a drive larger then the current parity drive... Directions Here. 5-6 are the same procedure. Edit: This Link was not the best source of directions, see later in the thread to find a better set of directions. 7 and 8 really dependent on if you are using a cache pool or not, and how that cache pool is configured... this IMO is an area of weakness in the documentation right now. Curveball: No you don't lose the entire unRAID if a second disk becomes disabled during the rebuild. You could lose between 1 and 2 disks worth of data, depending on if one of the disks that fails is the parity disk. The nice thing about unRAID is you can never lose the entire array from one disk failing (even if others have already failed) at worst you only lose the failed disks.