thestewman

I just ran and completed running PreClear with this plugin and it is great. My only question is where do I find the Smart History that is associated with each disk that I ran the Preclear on ? I do find a Smart Hstory (Printed in Red) in the System Log. If I go to the Smart History Button I get the following message. "Sorry: cannot run smarthistory. " "The /boot/smarthistory/smarthistory.php file does not exist."

OK, just updated successfully and all 4 files in the preclear.disk folder now have respectable sizes. I started a preclear. Now on the Settings->Preclear Disk screen I have one line for disk sdo and at the far right side, only a Starting.... followed by a big red X Is this expected status behavior for a running preclear? On the preclear page, right side, above the start button it should state if the script is available

OK, just updated successfully and all 4 files in the preclear.disk folder now have respectable sizes. I started a preclear. Now on the Settings->Preclear Disk screen I have one line for disk sdo and at the far right side, only a Starting.... followed by a big red X Is this expected status behavior for a running preclear? If you did not get a text screen sounds like it did not start. You should have 3 tgz files and the script in your preclear. disk folder. Did you turn off all pop up and adware blockers?

If using the fast preclear script rename it preclear_disk.sh

Did you add the preclear_disk.sh script to the config/plugins/preclear.disk folder ? If you have a popup or any Ad Blockers you have to turn them off for this page Sometimes I have to multiple click the Start Preclear button Your preclear.disk folder should be like the one above in reply #60 from morbidpete And make sure the file sizes match the ones in reply #60 as I could not download them via the plug in an had to manually download them.

Morbidpete Thank you for the setup info. I got it working. Your setup info resolved what to do with the 3 txz files needed. I was never able to resolve why when I ran the plugin 2 of the 3 txz files were empty. But I was able to get the correct files by going directly to the Slackware site and add them after installing the plugin. The final thing I found and this is really stupid on my part. I am using Adblockplus and it stopped me from receiving the preclear messages from within the Chrome browser. Turning it off for the Tower pages solved the last problem. Thanks again for all who stepped in to help.

Here is the syslog I don't see anything wrong, but the download must be failing for some reason... Are you able to SSH/telnet in or try these commands from the console to see if any errors come back: wget -O /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/ap/tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz wget -O /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-14.1/slackware64/l/libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz This basically manually (re)downloads those 0-sized packages you're seeing I tried using your recommendation and the 2 files I downloaded and received were only 1kb in size. I don't understand why I am having a problem downloading only those 2 files or why the plugin does not install correctly. I was hoping the OP could enlighten me on the problem. I went directly to the Slackware site and downloaded the 3 correct txz files. Can you or someone advise me what directory or folder names to use and where to place the files after unpacking them. Currently I have them in separate folders. libevent tmux usr All in the preclear.disk folder which also includes the file for preclear_disk.sh The plugin will go to Starting but does not run. And eventually I stop it within the plugin

Here is the syslog syslog.zip

Here is the syslog Log_Information.pdf

No. 16gb flash with 844mb used

Just to clarify, do you mean you pasted the URL into the Install Plugins page, or did you try to save it to the plugins folder yourself? I pasted this into the Plugin area https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gfjardim/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/preclear.disk.plg Your previous download was incomplete. Delete the folder /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk (/boot = your flash drive) and re-install using the plugin manager. I do not have /boot/config/plugins folder ?? I do have config/plugins folder I deleted the preclear.disk folder,rebooted the server And reinstalled the plugin Here is the install log plugin: installing: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gfjardim/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/preclear.disk.plg plugin: downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gfjardim/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/preclear.disk.plg plugin: downloading: /tmp/plugins/preclear.disk.plg ... done plugin: downloading: /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/preclear.disk-2015.05.20b.txz ... done +============================================================================== | Installing new package /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/preclear.disk-2015.05.20b.txz +============================================================================== Verifying package preclear.disk-2015.05.20b.txz. Installing package preclear.disk-2015.05.20b.txz: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: Package preclear.disk-2015.05.20b.txz installed. plugin: downloading: /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz ... done +============================================================================== | Installing new package /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz +============================================================================== Verifying package tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz. xz: (stdin): File format not recognized Installing package tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: WARNING: Package has not been created with 'makepkg' Package tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz installed. plugin: downloading: /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz ... done +============================================================================== | Installing new package /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz +============================================================================== Verifying package libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz. xz: (stdin): File format not recognized Installing package libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: WARNING: Package has not been created with 'makepkg' Package libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz installed. chmod: cannot access '/usr/local/sbin/readvz': No such file or directory ----------------------------------------------------------- preclear.disk has been installed. This plugin requires Dynamix webGui to operate Copyright 2015, gfjardim Version: 2015.05.20b ----------------------------------------------------------- plugin: installed Done I see several errors but do not understand why. The result is a preclear.diskfolder containing libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz file size 0 tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz file size 0 preclear.disk-2015.05.20b.txz file size 95 None of the files have been unpacked

Just to clarify, do you mean you pasted the URL into the Install Plugins page, or did you try to save it to the plugins folder yourself? I pasted this into the Plugin area https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gfjardim/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/preclear.disk.plg

Zero-length files on flash are often a sign of corruption. Put in your PC and let it checkdisk. Did a DSKCHK from the command line on my PC No Problems were found I tried again to install Preclear and it did the same thing. tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz File size 0 libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz File size 0 And it places the third file.... preclear.disk-2015.05.20b.txz into the folder Preclear Disk with out extracting Is there someway to verify the plugin download is running correctly

I am having difficulty with the plugin. It could be I do not know enough and I am not properly installing it. When I install the plugin I get 3 uzipped files placed into Flash/Config/Plugins (see Attachment) Two of the files are empty tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz I can unzip the remaining file and get the following Install message Verifying package tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz. xz: (stdin): File format not recognized Installing package tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: WARNING: Package has not been created with 'makepkg' Package tmux-1.8-x86_64-1.txz installed. plugin: downloading: /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz ... done +============================================================================== | Installing new package /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz +============================================================================== Verifying package libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz. xz: (stdin): File format not recognized Installing package libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz: PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: WARNING: Package has not been created with 'makepkg' Package libevent-2.0.21-x86_64-1.txz installed. chmod: cannot access '/usr/local/sbin/readvz': No such file or directory When I attempt to run the plugin I get : PreClear Script not Present There is conflicting instructions on where to place the Preclear_disk.sh file The writer says: Download it to your PC, un-zip it there, then copy preclear_disk.sh to your flash drive to the same folder that currently has bzroot and bzimage. On linux, that folder would be /boot From windows file-explorer,the folder would be at \\tower\flash if you just plug the flash drive into your windows PC, it will be the top level folder on the drive. And the OP says: Please put a copy of the script to /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/ directory. I do not have a /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/ directory Only config/plugins/preclear.disk/ directory So I am totally confused. Thanks

Thank You Updated to 2015.05.18b and now it appears properly

Installed as per the URL above and the installation went without any errors. The plugin was installed and noted on the Plugin page as installed but it was not listed on the Settings/utilities page. I rebooted the system and still no listing on the Settings/Utilities page. I did the latest update that added the fast preclear and still no listing in Settings/utilities syslog-2015-05-18.txt

Could you help a new user install these scripts. I thought it was a plugin Thanks for any help

Yes it is MNT. You must have been quoting as I was editing what I had typed in error. So you are saying that as part of the 2 step restoration if you want it to say Docker.img one should manually change it ?

I followed these instructions to restore my Docker image file. My question is I see in all the threads they are saying their docker image is /mnt/cache/image.img After following the 2 steps mine comes up as /mnt/cache/docker. There is no .img file name. is this correct and OK ?

And how are you doing the backups and Sync ?

Gary Being a noobie and lacking any real expertise I need to know how i can get this done. These are both automatically backed up to a 3rd UnRAID server Tom hasn't expressed any interest to do this. I have a 24 drive system and want to buy another 24 drive system and have a differential or incremental backup done everynight Stew

Unfortunately not all users are as well-informed. Many seem to think "fault-tolerance" = no backup needed ... and don't realize that's not true until they experience a significant data loss. This would indeed be nice as part of an overall backup utility which tracked newly added files wrote them to an external drive ... prompting for a drive swap whenever the external unit was filled. This, however, is a different story. You don't want your backups on the same system that's being backed up -- one good electrical surge could wipe out both the primary data and the backups at the same time Nevertheless, it would still be better than no backups -- and as long as the system is UPS protected the risk is very small. [i know a lot of folks who backup their PC data to a 2nd drive in the same system ... usually UPS protected as well.] Good points The last one about not using the same system was a point I overlooked. I was thinking of the convenience of backing up to a single drive when no external USB drive was available. Personally I was thinking of getting an identical hardware copy of my Unraid system that would backup incrementally every night. Think Tom and company will write us a backup ?

I would like to add another comment. I am a new Unraid user with no Linux experience. Unraid should be aware and probably is that the bulk of their OS sales and server hardware sales are to unexperienced users who cannot write code or scripts. That's why we purchased Unraid.And we are smart enough to realize that backups of everything are necessary because as was stated in the first post. Hard drives and systems fail. JonP and Tom provide us with a Unraid Backup program with a GUI interface. Also enable us with The ability to use plugin USB external drives that are not part of the array so we can take advantage of Unraid's speeds and convenience. Internal Hard drives not mounted on Unraid, not precleared and that are not part of the unraid array where we can backup Unraid files