Josh7890

Well then I'm glad something good came of this!

Ah, I just realized you're the CA Appdata Backup guy! Thanks for a good tool; sorry if I'm giving it bad publicity by highlighting how I misused it. To answer your question: No, once that drive failed there were zero remaining cache drives. I was using just the one drive. (About to be replaced with a cache pool now though!) It would probably be useful in future versions to have as a default setting something along the lines of "require confirmation before replacing a previous backup with an empty backup" to handle situations like this. The app did actually work as configured, and since it's backing up the share not the drive, it did properly interpret the share as empty.

Ah, I forgot to include the fact that the drive failed. So after it failed, I checked to see if the backup was intact, and it was! But then the following week, it did another backup and of course the cache share was now empty, so it dutifully backed up an empty folder and deleted the >1-day old backup.

I didn't know that. Thank you!

Hi all, Through a series of unfortunate events*, I lost all of my docker app data, and I need to start from scratch. Previously I was using Plex Media Server, CouchPotato, Sonarr, NZBGet, NZBHydra, and I'm sure a few other minor tools that I forget about now. Since I have to start over anyway, I'm wondering if there are any recommendations for the best of these types of apps for use with Unraid. Are there any repositories that give you them all bundled together and configured to talk to each other, more or less "out of the box"? I have a lifetime Plex Pass subscription, so I want to keep my setup Plex-centric, but otherwise I'm open to anything. *If you're curious about the gory details of how I lost everything, the sequence of bad decisions I made were: 1) Only one cache drive (edit: which failed), 2) CA AppData Backup configured to delete backups older than 1 day, and 3) it did a "backup" of the empty cache drive, replacing the wonderfully useful backup with an empty folder.

My SSD and cache / application drive has stopped being recognized. It shows up under "historical" devices. I've tried rebooting, powering down and starting up again, and I've tried re-seating the SSD's SATA cables. Interestingly, it was recognized again for about a week after trying that final step once, but then went back to not working again. I don't know whether this sequence of events was a coincidence or not. I suspect the SSD itself may be faulty. Over the past few months, I've been seeing the SSD's "retired block count" and "reported incorrect" values increasing. I also don't know if this is a coincidence. Diagnostics attached. Thank you greatly for any assistance. serenity-diagnostics-20180307-1938.zip

One more question about Time Machine: Using El Capitan and unRAID 6.1.7, is there anything special required to use encrypted Time Machine backups? I started a backup, and to verify that it was encrypted I tried to mount the sparsebundle on a separate machine, and it mounted without requiring a password. Any ideas?

I believe that the Plex Pass features is connected to your account and not specifically to a Plex Pass release. The Plex Pass releases is where all new features show up first so it’s more like a preview of new functionality that is implemented and an opportunity to find new bugs and “enjoy” them for a while before they get fixed. Yes you become the beta tester. Plex Pass is both beta testing/early release of features and premium features (such as Plex Home or Plex Sync to name a few). So Plex Pass matters if you use specific premium features, however it is as mentioned in this sense specific to just beta testing new releases. You will not lose any premium functionality being on the "official release" unless of course the premium functionality was just released and not in the official release thread yet. Your plex pass functionality is tied to your login and login only to Plex. Thanks all! I'm going to stick with the LimeTech docker for now unless I find a compelling reason to use a different one.

I'm having problems getting a postprocessing script to work. I'm trying to use the Email.py script to send myself an email on completed downloads. Overall, I had NZBGet installed and working. CouchPotato and Sonarr are automatically sending downloads to NZBGet, the downloads are successful, and the files are being handled properly in NZBGet, CP/Sonarr, and Plex. Here's what I've done so far: * Added Email.py to the appropriate ppscripts folder * Confirmed that the script is in the right place by virtue of the fact that NZBGet now displays the config UI for the script * Entered my email information (including my Gmail two-factor authentication app-specific password) * Added Email.py to the list of default post-processing scripts, as well as the list of post-processing scripts for each category (I have no other scripts configured) * Saved and soft-reloaded NZBGet * Confirmed that python is installed in unRAID (via the NerdPack - I needed it for an unrelated python script. Not sure if it's relevant in this case though.) On completion of a download, no email arrives and Gmail shows a null value for the last date that the app-specific password was used. Is there anything obvious that I've missed? Are there logs that I can look at to diagnose what's happening? I couldn't find anything in the NZBGet log. I had the same config working on a previous install of NZBGet on OS X.

How'd it go?

Great, thanks!

After installing this plugin, I received the following email overnight. What does it mean? From: [my email address] To: "root" <root> Bcc: [my email address] Subject: cron for user root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null Body: sed: can't read /boot/config/plugins/dynamix.file.integrity/disks.ini: No such file or directory sed: can't read /boot/config/plugins/dynamix.file.integrity/disks.ini: No such file or directory

Has the availability of Plex Pass in the Lime Tech docker changed since this thread was started? I'd prefer to stay on the official docker, but I'm a lifetime Plex Pass member and I want my premium features.

For not very much more, what do you think of this unit? http://excessups.ca/apc-backups-pro-700va-br700g-refurbished

Thanks Jon! Looking in the product for instructions - makes too much sense. I think I've got things working now. One question: Is it fine to use the cache for the TM share to get better write speeds? Will the mover be able to handle the encrypted sparse bundles? *Edit*: And one more question, is it still a requirement for Time Machine to have the user share on only one data disk, or can it be spread out as unRAID sees fit as with other user shares?

Hi all, I'm trying to track down documentation about how to set up Time Machine backups from OS X to unRAID. I've found a variety of information but in all cases some things seem to be out of date. Can anyone point me in the direction of the latest instructions for unRAID 6.x and newer versions of OS X? Here are some of the resources I've found so far. Are these instructions still valid? How to set unRAID up with Time Machine? (forum topic from 2013) UNRAID/MAC Basics (forum topic from 2012) setup Share advice for TimeMachine (forum topic from 2012) https://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Plugin/webGui/AFP Some of the things I'm trying to figure out are: AFP or SMB with El Capitan? Disk share or User share on a single disk? (or does this still matter?) One share per Mac in the house or one share for all of them? Is there a change required on the OS X end?

Another $19 for shipping. Though I'm in Markham from time to time so I might be able to pick it up. The one feature this one doesn't have, though, is coaxial protection for my cable modem. Should I be concerned about that? The only thing at risk would be the modem itself, right?

For me, the router and unRAID box would be the only things I want battery backup for, so the Back UPS series should be fine for me. I'm not sure how I feel about refurbished, though the prices are certainly good! I'm thinking about this one: APC BackUPS Pro LS 700VA USB UPS, Refurbished (BP700UC)

Thank you ashman. Can you recommend any units that work well with unRAID?

Bombz - did you end up finding a good unit? I'm in the same position as you: never used a UPS before, wanting something that plays nicely with unRAID (I'd like graceful shutdown and automatic restart), and I'm in Canada too, and I'd like to spend as little as possible while still getting a decent enough unit. Also, like you, the only thing on battery backup would be the unRAID server.

It's Firewire 800. The only other option is USB 2.0. I'm trying rsync now without any other changes and so far (after just a few files), I'm getting around double the speed - around 23 MB/s.

The Mac mini and the unRAID box are both reporting 1000 Mbps ethernet connections. After the next batch I'll try a transfer from the Mac mini's internal drive to unRAID to isolate the Drobo or point my troubleshooting somewhere else. I appreciate everyone's help, btw! This is a very friendly community.

I disabled the parity disk before I started the transfer. I've also disabled the cache for this share since my 120 GB SSD will fill up quickly. The first batch is turning out to be more like 12 MB/s. At this rate, the transfer is going to take a week (if there aren't any hiccups). Edit: It took pretty much exactly 60 minutes to copy 40 GB. That's about a week for 6 TB. I'm using SMB, with AFP disabled entirely. Is there any chance AFP would perform better than SMB? From what I understand even Apple has switched to SMB as the default between Macs now (with the exception of network Time Machine backups), so I wouldn't expect the old AFP to do better. I suspect the Drobo is the bottleneck, which is unfortunate as it's the only thing I can't change until the data is off it.

I'm impatient too! But sadly the HFS file system is wrapped in Drobo's proprietary "BeyondRAID" system. Right now I've started copying files over with the Mac and unRAID box connected via Gb ethernet ports and a cat6 cable, using self-assigned IP addresses. (Using Finder to copy a batch of files.) Unfortunately, the network link isn't the bottleneck here. I'm getting somewhere around or under 20 MB/s (Finder doesn't tell me). I'll try rsync for my next batch and see how that works. I suspect I could connect everything to the router again, even wirelessly, and I'd get the same speeds.

Do any Mac users here have suggestions for Finder alternatives that will let me queue up copy jobs, pause and resume, etc?