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Sorry your right its not, I was more meaning in terms of a new container, the existing image can be pushed out as new pro version just by changing the download link in the script.

All we need is for the gfjardim docker to have the crashplan download link in github updated to point to the new crashplan for small business download. I've done a copy of the git repo and made the changes, pushed to a private hub for testing but didn't get as far as running... Docker hub built it fine so as long as the pro app installs in the same manner creating a new image should be as simple as the above. Edit: Shutdown my main crashplan docker to boot mine up with host access, went in to noVNC access which showed a new crashplan pro home login screen; didn't have to upgrade from the home version and the docker image has downloaded the latest 4.9.0 pro app from the web... So, all gfjardim has to do is change the download link and rebuild the docker image.

From what I've seen, backblaze personal is the best value in terms of cheap unlimited storage but it has limited versioning as noted earlier, and its also only available on Windows or Mac (probably to stop the installation on NAS'). I'll be transferring to Crashplan for small businesses as I don't mind the extra cost for the peace of mind and I've got less than 5TB so migrating isn't an issue.

@mbc0That refers to the personal backup solution which is not B2, B2 is a seperate service: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage.html just make sure cloudberry is connecting to the right service!

How much is 14TB going to cost you? I understood that B2 storage was still priced by the GB and entering that value in is $820NZD a year; far more than crashplan pro?

Hi, I currently use Diskstation Manager (DSM) 5.2 from Synology on my Xeon 1366 system by using a custom loader. I won't go in to details of how as that would be inappropriate for this forum. At any rate, the 'hack' is obviously unsupported and could be stopped at any time or the developers of the 'hack' could abandon it. As a result, I am looking in to other technologies. To give some definition around my use, I will provide the current system: Xeon Westmere 5630 40w lga1366 CPU Supermicro X8DTE-F 2 x LSI 9211-8is 16GB DDR3 rdimms 3 x 4in3 Rosewill hotswap sata3 bays Rosewill rackmount chassis 2 x WD Red 3TB 1 x WD Green 3TB 1 x WD Blue 1TB 1 x WD Green 500GB 1 x Hitachi deskstar 80GB In DSM, I use SHR-1 which is single parity RAID5 hybrid array using mdadm and LVM2 to create the array. It is fast and reliable, write speeds are normally around 100MB/s with read speeds saturating my 1GBe network. The array stores my VM templates and VMs from my vSphere hosts, games, music, videos etc. So, now if I was to replace this system what could unRAID do for me? 1) DSM has an amazing interface that has a number of great plugins and 'applications'; how does unRAID compare in users opinion? 2) SHR-1 concatenates the various drives using LVM2 so that it all appears a single, seamless drive and parity is rotated across all the drives. I appreciate that unRAID doesn't do this, but how does it deal with stored VMs or items that are bigger than the space on the drive? Are they capable of spanning across drives, or if they exceed the drive threshold are they moved to the next available drive with space? 3) Does unRAID have iSCSI? 4) Can unRAID offload storage operations from vSphere (VAAI)? 5) What write speeds would I be expecting from the configuration? 6) Would read speeds be the same as a drive individually as there is no striping? Presently, if I was running a 10GBe network (or SMB3 with multipathing) I can get around 350MB/s from the array. Any thoughts on these questions is appreciated. Chris

How much power is this system consuming? I'm tempted by xeons of that era but I did here they pull a lot and that the power costs may outweigh the eventual price of the new ivybridge or sandy bridge xeons, especially in nz with our power charges.

Cheers Guys, It appears that this motherboard is picky about the RAM it can use. I've got some more stuff on order to see if that works.

Hi Hoping someone might be able to assist. I've just taken possession of an X7SPA-HF (Not the D525 version) to try some stuff but I can't get it to work. It's the mITX form factor and I've set the jumpers up as per the manual for internal VGA, IMPI etc. I plug in power and it boots up and the lan links are flashing but there is no output from the VGA and while the router picks up the max address of the IPMI, no IP address is ever granted. At the moment, I can't get access to the BIOS as there is no vga output and I can't access the IPMI aspects either. The memory is just some apacer sodimm stuff, could that affect the ability for the system to boot? If I take the memory out, then the on-board speaker beeps. There is currently a little green LED flashing about a 1/3rd up from the bottom of the motherboard. Any thoughts? Thanks Chris

Hi NAS Thanks, good to know that it is considered although a shame to hear that it isn't on the roadmap yet. I didn't mean to imply that it was simple to do, more that it would be simpler than using MC in the CLI.

Hi, Drivebender (windows drivepooling software) has a cool feature that allows you to transfer the data from a hard-drive before it can be pulled from the 'array'. While this does take a while, it ensures that the drive to be removed is empty and that the data is on the other drives according to the balancing style selected. What is the chance of this feature being incorporated in to the webgui? I realise that we can do this using MC but really I think it should be part of the webgui and can be done very simply and seamlessly. Would make upgrading those old drives less painful in my opinion. Cheers, Chris

Actually nvidia talks about gaming with them and calls it cloud gaming. http://www.nvidia.com/object/cloud-gaming-benefits.html I remember when nvidia came out with the PhysicX card for dedicated physics calculations to tack the load off the CPU it too was expensive. Give it time the price will come down. I just though it was cool that there is advancements in 3D virtualization. Yeah it is cool, the whole ability to pass through gpus or use a dedicated system like Grid is fun. I think GPU passthrough is more mature and will be more mainstream but the ability to run a number of grid cards and dedicate cards as you need is pretty sweet.

Saying that, one of the cards listed above was a high performance gaming grid card... equivalent to 2 x GTX 680 from what I can recall... Again for the price you'd better off getting multi gpu that can be run as required.

The cost of the grid gpu's are hugely expensive. While a single grid gpu may serve more than 1 machine at once, it would probably be cheaper to build a number of whiteboxes to more performance for less money... I suspect while serving 16 gaming clients the performance would be quite low.

That is what I understand. I believe that those who have moved their VMs to KVM do not experience problems. Excellent. I use Xenserver as my actual VM hosts but I'm keen to try more of v6 but didn't want it to compromise the network to unRAID.

So this network issue only affects those that run VMs on their unRAID host? If I run unRAID simply as unRAID and don't use Xen then networking is fine?

Thanks people, just the sort of answers I wanted to hear! Also thought that if I do need to upgrade the boot loader then I can simply plugin a USB linux 'cd' and boot from that using IPMI and then upgrade the internal stick once in linux.

I'm getting close to purchasing a full license but I'm curious about how we update unRAID to either newer betas or latest version if say the usb is via a motherboard header (such as supermicro motherboards) and the entire unit is in a place that is hard to access. Does unRAID have a command line update, similar to apt-get upgrade or similar? If not, can you replace the contents of the flash drive with a later version after making it shared from a separate machine? As a last resort, if none of the above works, can you boot a Linux image of IPMI and then upgrade via a 'Live CD' Linux boot? Most software I've known has inline upgrades available, but I'm not so clued up on unRAID! Thanks Chris

Hi, I currently use unRAID in my xenserver environment and it seems to work well, except that beta 6 sometimes has a hiccup with the libvirt stuff. I have managed to find a cheap supermicro atom based motherboard with IPMI that interests me but I'm not sure of the value of going back to a standalone unRAID system. With xenserver I can define boot options and start my domain controller first followed by unRAID so that AD is sorted but the question I have is 'Is this worth doing?'. Are their any benefits I miss out on having unRAID virtualised? Thoughts? Cheers, Chris

I've got an issue with my basic install of unRAID. I've got a beta 6 installation on my xenserver 6.2. On boot, it seems to get stuck at 'starting 'libvirtd' and even though this happens, unRAID is usable. Even though it is usable, the a single cpu assigned seems to be stuck at 100%. If I assign two CPUs then it is at 50% usage. I don't know what is wrong and I have restarted the unRAID server multiple times now and nothing helps! Anythoughts?

I know with some of the windows pooling software that you can see how much data in mb/s is being pulled from a drive and also see what files are being read/written to. Does unRAID have such 'stats'?

Hi, I'm new here so be gentle :-) I'm looking at unraid for my new storage system but I have a question (a few actually). I record a lot of HD TV from DVB-S via MediaPortal. I generally record and then watch back from the same directory. With multiple HD streams being written (approximately 9Mbit/s streams, I want to ensure that parity is not calculated on this share as really it is not required. Is is possible to exclude these directories from the parity process? Also, if I want to permanently keep these recordings, I will move them from Recorded TV to another share... Is there a quick way to move from share to share, or is it best to drop these in to a cache drive? If I don't use a cache drive, how does parity work in this case? Finally, does unraid have an autobalance across drives? For example, I have two drives that I am testing using the basic version. At the moment, I have a 1TB drive connected and running fine but for me to add the 3TB drive I need to clear it which means I have to backup the data first. Assuming that my only other drive is the 1TB drive, does unraid balance the pool if I load up the 1TB with data from the 3TB before adding the 3TB to the pool? Edit 1: Also, how easy is it to extract HDDs from the array, i.e. I want to upgrade a HDD to a higher capacity... Can I simply ask Unraid to remove the drive, let it shift the data off the drive to the remaining drives (i.e. a balanced approached asked above) and then unmount that drive? Obviously if the array is full, that becomes more awkward but I'm assuming in the plus/pro versions you can set a reserve space limit for such events? OR does it simply rebuild the data on the removed drive from Parity information? If so, does this take the array offline every time you try to upgrade HDDs? Cheers, Chris