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1 - i did my monthly parity check - and it took an extra day to complete, started at normal speed then slowed down as much as 17 MB/s at the end - gradually slower and slower... - here are my last several parity checks - i added another drive between the 2-29 and 3-03 parity checks. 2020-03-03, 18:34:462 day, 18 hr, 34 min, 45 sec 33.4 MB/sOK0 2020-02-29, 00:33:111 day, 14 hr, 42 min, 33 sec 57.4 MB/sOK0 2020-01-31, 20:04:171 day, 10 hr, 36 min, 38 sec 64.2 MB/sOK0 2020-01-02, 11:04:371 day, 11 hr, 4 min, 36 sec 63.4 MB/sOK0 2019-12-02, 10:31:481 day, 10 hr, 31 min, 47 sec 64.4 MB/sOK0 2 - fix common problems says i needed unassigned devices plus (i have the non plus one installed) - when i went to check plugins - the installed plugins page failed to load over and over (including after reboot) - now it says that i have backup server or server settings running at the top of the page and that some settings plugins may be different.. And now it is failing to load again a few minutes later (It should be noted that my internet provider is having some problems today and connections to some pages are not working at the moment) - i assume this is the reason for that but not so sure about the backup settings thing? EDIT - it appears that plugins page is working now with internet back. I am attaching diagnostics for before and after the reboot and 1 minute power down of all hardware. pipe-diagnostics-20200304-0825.zip pipe-diagnostics-20200303-2034.zip

OK - so i have put another drive in slot 14- which was formatted xfs and pulled from the 2nd unraid system. It was unmountable - so i formatted it, at this point it is formatting as far as i know, but in doing so it is reading from all drives which is more like a parity check right? Is it normal in this case - see screenshot. If so, i will mark this thread solved I assumed that a format would not require reading of the rest of the drives, but to be just writing zeros to the new drive. Thanks again everyone for your help.

Thanks Johnnie - just out of curiosity - if i had formatted, but the data mover had not been run (i turned it off for now) - would parity still in theory be good? I have 21 hours until i have access to a free 8tb hard drive. So i am going to just add it in slot 14, format it and then parity check.

This screenshot (shows asking to format) would be in line with the theory that it would be ok to do the new config and say parity is valid? Being very cautious here, since i am not 100% sure i would be doing right thing.

I am a little confused at this point - not sure - My assumption is that it nothing was written to the drive - i should be able to mount it and look right?

Correct.

I will put the drive in another machine and smart test it - it may be a while until i can safely do that.

I am not sure if it was unmountable - i think it might have been asking me to format (which i didn't do) but i don't remember. - This is my smaller array - i am waiting for an 8tb to be freed up on my 25 disk 170 TB - That one still has 5's and a lot of 6 TBs and i am pulling the drives and rebuilding to 10/12 - so next drive i pull will be an 8 and i will move it to the problem array.

it appears to have parity - see screenshot.

Thanks, wouldn't the shrink array method put the array with no parity backups vs, having the ability to lose 1 drive with the 2nd method? ie less risk of data than a full rebuild of parity?

Can i run it for a few days emulating the missing disk and then add an 8 when i get it freed up from another machine?

I shut down the array, added one slot (#14), then added a drive 8tb which was labeled as precleared. Recieved smart errors right off the bat on the precleared drive - my assumption is that this drive is bad So i stopped the array - now it treats new slot (#14) as if it were a missing disk. Is this normal behavior because the drive was labeled precleared even if the array was only run for a few minutes? Should i just run the array for as is for days or just remove disk 14 - i am assuming that will force a data rebuild? Is there an easy way to just go back to the array as it was until i can free up an 8tb drive (probably will take 4 days to get)? I have attached screenshot and diagnostics - look feb 25, 1100 am for problems to start. Thanks in advance. pipe-diagnostics-20200225-1137.zip

I updated to 10.15.3 without any problems that i can see.

I like That you can use any size hard drives. - A free low drive count option for things like preclearing on a separate machine - Or A low cost option for keys for existing users to buy more keys. I would like to setup server number 3 sooner or later.

In Catalina go to settings - Apple-ID, under iCloud uncheck which filetypes you do not want to be permanently stored on the disk. If i uncheck that it will leave all the photos on the drive right? then i can delete them? My preference is that they exist in the cloud only (because i made the virtual drive 68gb. I did find a setting in the photos app itself. Top left next to the apple icon, photos-preferences, there is general and icloud - and under icloud i can optimize mac storage. this has been done. Under storage i have 11.16gb of 68.38 left, 29gb of which is photos. - the main issue is that i have docker image utilization of 71% - maybe i just should up the size of my docker image?

Hi, sorry i took so long to check on the thread and see this - i have the same - i can post a screenshot if you want.

This is more of a mac question - Using Catalina and MacOs downloaded all the photos and started filling up my virtual drive - i don't mind having access to the photos but prefer they stay in the could. How can i get the photos deleted off the VM to make space without deleting the originals.. I want them to stay online, access them and remain on my iphone. Thanks In Advance.

I have the binhex java minecraft server running nicely for the kids - and i would like to try and set this up as well, so that their friends can connect with other platforms. Is there anything to running bedrock and java versions simultaneously in containers? And would it be recommended way to do the port forwarding in this case? I always thought that minecraft java just needed port 25565, but see here it says some more ports, unless that is for the windows 10 minecraft. https://portforward.com/minecraft/

FYI i ordered 5 and received today.

No Machine is working great, i tried at least 5 different solutions for a good server and none of them worked well. Very glad you posted this as it solved my dilemna of finding a nice low footprint remote access from windows 10.

I would like to have all drives spin up around 22:20 or 22:25 - five minutes prior to scheduled mover to troubleshoot a problem versus just leaving drives spun up 24x7. Is there a way to do this? How big of a deal is it to leave drives spun up 24x7? Assume its not a good thing from power and drive failure point of view?

Same lag and sound still not working - although i did get some really glitchy sound when watching a video before adding the ich9. Clipboard functionality is there. Looks like its using a lot of CPU according to activity monitor. I bumped up to 8 gb of ram for the vm but left the cpu's at the default 2. That doesn't seem to make a difference. VNC works like a charm except the limitations of no clipboard or sound. I haven't had any luck finding a good free small footprint vnc server or similar for Catalina yet. Attaching the xml in case there might be something else wrong. Sound would be nice but not critical. Really none of this is super critical, but if someone has the time and has any ideas, thanks. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm' id='13' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'> <name>MacinaboxCatalina</name> <uuid>f6eedaff-8b35-4c05-a370-2421928d6968</uuid> <description>MacOS Catalina</description> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 10" icon="default.png" os="Catalina"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>8388608</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>8388608</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/> </cputune> <resource> <partition>/machine</partition> </resource> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-3.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader> <nvram>/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='2'/> </cpu> <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/Clover.qcow2'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/> <boot order='1'/> <alias name='sata0-0-2'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/Catalina-install.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hdd' bus='sata'/> <alias name='sata0-0-3'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='3'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/macos_disk.img'/> <backingStore/> <target dev='hde' bus='sata'/> <alias name='sata0-0-4'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='4'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <alias name='usb'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <alias name='usb'/> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <alias name='usb'/> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <alias name='usb'/> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'> <alias name='pcie.0'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='1' port='0x10'/> <alias name='pci.1'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='2' port='0x11'/> <alias name='pci.2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='3' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='3' port='0x12'/> <alias name='pci.3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='4' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='4' port='0x13'/> <alias name='pci.4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x3'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <alias name='virtio-serial0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='sata' index='0'> <alias name='ide'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:57:64:01'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <target dev='vnet0'/> <model type='e1000-82545em'/> <alias name='net0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> <alias name='serial0'/> </serial> <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/0'> <source path='/dev/pts/0'/> <target type='serial' port='0'/> <alias name='serial0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-13-MacinaboxCatalina/org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0' state='connected'/> <alias name='channel0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <alias name='input0'/> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input1'/> </input> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'> <alias name='input2'/> </input> <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='yes' websocket='5700' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> </graphics> <sound model='ich9'> <alias name='sound0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1b' function='0x0'/> </sound> <video> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <alias name='video0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <alias name='balloon0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> <seclabel type='dynamic' model='dac' relabel='yes'> <label>+0:+100</label> <imagelabel>+0:+100</imagelabel> </seclabel> <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-usb'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='usb-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='isa-applesmc,osk= <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> <qemu:arg value='type=2'/> <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/> <qemu:arg value='Penryn,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,+pcid,+ssse3,+sse4.2,+popcnt,+avx,+aes,+xsave,+xsaveopt,check'/> </qemu:commandline> </domain>

Thanks SpaceInvaderOne and JagadGuru !! - I got it working splashtop works now - Is there any reason that splashtop has occasional and consistent delays - one every 45 seconds or so. so i will have to wait 5 plus seconds for the text to show up or the item i click on to respond, then it goes back and works fine.i have connect via local network box enabled - and connection is smooth versus sharp.(these are the only settings i could find) VNC is still a low latency consistently smooth connection. Any recommendations for a VNC or similar program to work with sound and shared clipboard? I suppose shared clipboard more important than sound. Other than Teamviewer?

do you mean these settings -?

This is giving me MTU error Execution Error Cannot get interface MTU on 'br0': No such device maybe this xml will help figure out what is wrong. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'> <name>MacinaboxCatalina</name> <uuid>f6eedaff-8b35-4c05-a370-2421928d6968</uuid> <description>MacOS Catalina</description> <metadata> <vmtemplate xmlns="unraid" name="Windows 10" icon="default.png" os="Catalina"/> </metadata> <memory unit='KiB'>4194304</memory> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>4194304</currentMemory> <memoryBacking> <nosharepages/> </memoryBacking> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu> <cputune> <vcpupin vcpu='0' cpuset='0'/> <vcpupin vcpu='1' cpuset='1'/> </cputune> <os> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-q35-3.1'>hvm</type> <loader readonly='yes' type='pflash'>/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/ovmf/OVMF_CODE.fd</loader> <nvram>/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/ovmf/OVMF_VARS.fd</nvram> </os> <features> <acpi/> <apic/> </features> <cpu mode='host-passthrough' check='none'> <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='2'/> </cpu> <clock offset='utc'> <timer name='rtc' tickpolicy='catchup'/> <timer name='pit' tickpolicy='delay'/> <timer name='hpet' present='no'/> </clock> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot> <on_crash>restart</on_crash> <devices> <emulator>/usr/local/sbin/qemu</emulator> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/Clover.qcow2'/> <target dev='hdc' bus='sata'/> <boot order='1'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='2'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/Catalina-install.img'/> <target dev='hdd' bus='sata'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='3'/> </disk> <disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='writeback'/> <source file='/mnt/user/domains/MacinaboxCatalina/macos_disk.img'/> <target dev='hde' bus='sata'/> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='4'/> </disk> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x7'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'> <master startport='0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'> <master startport='2'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x1' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'> <master startport='4'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x07' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pcie-root'/> <controller type='pci' index='1' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='1' port='0x10'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0' multifunction='on'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='2' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='2' port='0x11'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x1'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='3' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='3' port='0x12'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x2'/> </controller> <controller type='pci' index='4' model='pcie-root-port'> <model name='pcie-root-port'/> <target chassis='4' port='0x13'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x3'/> </controller> <controller type='virtio-serial' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x02' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </controller> <controller type='sata' index='0'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x1f' function='0x2'/> </controller> <interface type='bridge'> <mac address='52:54:00:57:64:01'/> <source bridge='br0'/> <model type='vmxnet3'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </interface> <serial type='pty'> <target type='isa-serial' port='0'> <model name='isa-serial'/> </target> </serial> <console type='pty'> <target type='serial' port='0'/> </console> <channel type='unix'> <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/> <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/> </channel> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'> <address type='usb' bus='0' port='1'/> </input> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/> <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'/> <graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' websocket='-1' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/> </graphics> <video> <model type='qxl' ram='65536' vram='65536' vgamem='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x0'/> </video> <memballoon model='virtio'> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </memballoon> </devices> <qemu:commandline> <qemu:arg value='-usb'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='usb-kbd,bus=usb-bus.0'/> <qemu:arg value='-device'/> <qemu:arg value='isa-applesmc,osk= <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/> <qemu:arg value='type=2'/> <qemu:arg value='-cpu'/> <qemu:arg value='Penryn,kvm=on,vendor=GenuineIntel,+invtsc,vmware-cpuid-freq=on,+pcid,+ssse3,+sse4.2,+popcnt,+avx,+aes,+xsave,+xsaveopt,check'/> </qemu:commandline> </domain>