Aran

Intel quad nic's can be found online for cheap. But then again, that board only has a pcie 2x lane. I'm not sure it even supports vt-d so it doesn't matter. But then again: why spending $250 on hardware for a stand alone router when you can buy a cheap used dell (or other) server/tower with full speed pcie slots, 4 ram slots, vt-d/iommu support and double/tripple your sata ports. I'd vote for a used worstation with unraid and use your j4105b slap in a extra single nic and use it as a backup pfsense router in case your unraid server is down. There are negatives with this setup (like a little more power hungry) and i don't know your use-case but it seems to me your unraid server can use a modest upgrade I'm not trying to push you in this direction. I'm just thinking out loud.

I'm curious. Since you are posting in the unraid forums i assume you have an unraid server running. Have you considered setting up pfsense as a VM? I'm not saying this is the ideal solution (far from it). I'm just curious.

I'm not sure what you mean but i think most of us use their unraid-setup as 'always on' systems. VM's can start/stop automatically when unraid boots/shuts down. You can try unraid for free for 30 days.

Hi and welcome to the forum. Before we begin, do you have any experience with unraid? What you want can be done quite easy but it's not something we can simply list as a few steps. I see you're talking about re-using your hdd's... It is possible to run VM's on hdd's but it is highly recommended to store them on ssd's. Check spaceinvaderone's youtube channel to start with.

I use nextcloud myself and it DOES NOT delete uploaded images when i delete them on my phone. (you can choose what setting you want in the nextcloud app) However, it's more work and more docker containers are needed eg. Letsencrypt, domain name service (i use duckdns), nextcloud itself and a database docker (i use mariadb). Dropbox can be used also and is much more easy to set up. Just use a 2/4/8 whatever GB usb stick. Format it to the correct filesystem dropbox want. (i think it was ext4 but i'm on holiday so i can't check) Mount it as an unassinged device. Install dropbox docker and point /data to mnt/disks/your_usb_stick. Setup a script to MOVE all images/video's from that usb stick to the array. Use 'user scripts' plugin to setup an automated cron job. Voila, phone backup with free dropbox account even outside local network. I will be happy to help if i'm back from vacation (in 2 weeks)

Hi, this is just a topic for anyone who's interested in running unraid with just one disk... My parents needed a solution to store their huge amount of data. Like, just over 300GB... (yes, gigabites, not terabyte). So, i grabbed an semi-old intel nuc i had and put a whooping 500GB of WD blue laptop-drive in it. No parity, no cache, VM disabled. An external USB 3.0 drive will be used as backup with the UD plugin. There are probably cheaper/free options available OS wise but i learned to work with unraid and love it so sssshh. This 'server' will be used to automatically sync/store smartphone pictures within LAN, store/stream iTunes library and for basic SMB file sharing. I'm gonna ask to extend the trail key for another month and see how i't goes in real use. My only concern is the drive temp but i'm planning in swapping the HDD for an 1TB SSD anyway. Thanks for reading. Aran.

So this how it's set up now with everything working: Array: - 3TB (parity) - 3TB - 3TB Cache: - 500 SSD 6 shares: User1: set to use disk 1 only, cache to 'Yes'. User2: set to use disk 1 only, cache to 'Yes'. Nextcloud: set to use 'cache only' appdata: set to use 'cache only' domains: set to use 'cache only' Media: set to use disk 2 only, cache to 'No'. UD: - 1TB - shared with win10 vm, used for backups User1 & User2. - 3TB - USB storage used for backup Media. I use the 'user scripts' plugin to backup user shares to the UD disks. The 1TB disk is shared with a win10 VM that syncs this disk with cloud storage as this is important data. As you can see this is a relatively cheap server. Is there some room for improvement here? Without buying new hardware offcourse Another question: Several jobs are scheduled daily in user scripts plugin. Backup, mover, TRIM, WOL, ... Is there a way to automatically disable these jobs when parity job is running?

That's interesting. I did not know that.

How about a VPN? There is an OpenVPN docker. There's a little more to it than just installing the OpenVPN docker container but as always, check Spaceinvaderone's video's.

Hi, i'm trying to get chevereto work with a reverse proxy. Please take your time because i'm a total noob when it comes to website-stuff. - I can't find chevereto in Docker-support forum so i post it here. - I can access Chevereto via [local-ip]:[port] - Nextcloud works with Letsencrypt/duckdns - Piwigo works with Letsencrypt/duckdns - added duckdns cname to duckdns docker - added duckdns cname to letsencrypt docker I haven't changed anything yet besides the pre-written proxy-config's of nextcloud/piwigo. But Chevereto doesn't have such template. A quick search on the unraid forums got me this post: But i'm not sure this is what i'm after. So before i start altering files, my question is: what do i do next? If you need logs, please be so kind to tell me which one. Aran.

Ok, thanks.

True. I'm aware of that. I still need to figure out what brand/model i should use. 1TB is more than enough for our needs. We currently have 250GB of docs and pics and just over 2TB of video's/movies. One might say unraid is completely overkill for our needs

Hi there, Now that i know what i really want and which dockers/plugins i really need, it is time to reorganize my array. This is what i have: As you can see we don't need muchos TB's to save our data. Currently all data is stored in the array. (with the exception of docker appdata and vm's) 2TB of the total 3TB are movies. The rest are documents and photo's. I have backup scripts running every night. Now, these are the dockers/VM we use: dolphin filemanager emby nextcloud mariadb duckdns letsencrypt win10 VM And now for the first question: This is what i had in mind: Array: - 4TB (parity) - 4TB Cache: - 1TB ssd - 1TB ssd UD: - 1TB (nextcloud only) - 1TB passthrough for win10 VM - 6TB Backup USB I was thinking of moving the docs and photo's to the cache and leave only the movies in the array. We are constantly browsing/copying/reading/writing through our pictures and documents every day so i tought it might be beneficial to have them on an ssd. Am i right here or is this complete bullsh*t? Thanks in advance. Aran

🤔 I hope Spaceinvader One doesn't read this...

👍 Thanks. I couldn't get Duplicati to work with shares bigger than 10Gig's so I will use this method for now.

Hi, can any of you please confirm if i'm right about the difference between the next two commands? 1: rsync -a -v /mnt/user/ISOs $MOUNTPOINT/ 2>&1 vs 2: rsync -a -v --delete /mnt/user/ISOs $MOUNTPOINT/ 2>&1 The second one deletes files from the target that were deleted from the source, no? The first one is more like a real backup. Wich is what i'm trying to accomplish... Thanks, Aran.

Yeah, i know... I'm planning on upgrading to 6.6.7 this weekend but i need to get it all sorted out first. [edit] did the update and i'm running 6.6.7 now

Hi, i'm figuring out on how to plan automated tasks done by unraid itself. For instace, I think it's wise not to excecute the mover and parity check at the same time. Our array is only 4TB small with a 2TB parity disk so it doesn't take much time to perform the parity check. I don't have cache parity (yet) so i'm running mover daily and gave it a 30min time. SSD trim plugin every 2 weeks with 30min time (is this even still needed in Unraid 6.6.7 ?) Parity check is planned every 3 months with a 5h time. Then i have daily backups for all my data shares: Documents - 30min ISO's - 30min Music - 30min Pictues - 45min Videos - 1h This is what i planned so far: As you can see most of the work is done at night (when the server sits idle) except the parity check. Is this a the 'right' way to do it or do i need more time between tasks to save the disks (temp., reads/writes)? Any input on this is welcome.

I think there is a misunderstanding here... There are ton's of remote apps to control kodi but none of them have a decent layout to control the music library like mediamonkey, foobar, wmp, aimp, vlc, winamp, etc... I use Yatse to control kodi from my smartphone and that's a great app but i need one for a windows (or linux) desktop. Yes, they exist but only have basic controls. Are there other webui's for kodi like chorus but with a better library? I bypassed the problem by using WMP on my (already existing) windows VM and RDP to it. So i have access to wmp's music library with all the options and i can shut down my pc without stopping the playback.

There is a sonic plugin for kodi. I tried it but it's no what i'm looking for. When i'm on my desktop i can stream audio to kodi from several ways, even with the standard WMP. But when i close WMP the music stops (obviously). I'm looking for a music player on the server side that i can control on the client side. So that the audio is coming from the server. We have a 19" rack in the basement with the receiver and unraid server.

But then the audio is coming from your android device no?

Ok, right now i have Openelec installed as a VM and i use the Chorus2 webui as a remote to play/stop music from my desktop but i'm looking for 'something else' with more options. (English is not my native language so i'ts difficult to explain what i want but i'll do my best) When i'm behind my desktop i would like to have a program: with a decent music library that can stream to kodi VM (that is connected to my receiver) is also available as mobile app use it with unraid (a docker maybe) that doesn't stop playing when closed About that last request... When i'm done reading/working/searching and shut down my desktop i would like to keep the music playing. So what i'm probably looking for is a music player with a music library that i can access remotely. I tried Subsonic but it doesn't really do what i want. (i think) As a last resort i can always setup a windows or linux VM, passthrough a video card, install winamp, or whatever, on it and use a RDP. Kodi can be installed on that VM as well so i doesn't have to switch the receiver's input all the time. Anyone else have that problem?

Okay, it took me a while to figure out how this works but i got it up and running! Behold, my first script: #!/bin/bash echo "Moving all jpg files to local array..." mv /mnt/user/Documents/Dropbox/Camera-uploads/*.jpg /mnt/user/Fotos/Mobile_uploads/ Yes, i'm a newby... but a happy one

I know. But i would like to automatically move files from my dropbox folder to another share without the need of a vm.

Hello and allow me to explain my question. I use dropbox as a 'bridge' between my mobile phone and my windows VM to move my pics taken with my phone. A small windows program called 'DropIt' moves any *jpeg file detected in my dropbox folder to my unraid server. I works but the windows VM needs alot of recources just for moving around a few files. There are many SYNC tools in the CA but i can't find any simple automatic file MOVER. I need to MOVE (not SYNC) them because the free dropbox folder is too small in terms of GB's. This can probablly be done by a simple script but i'm not familiar with the cli. Is there a docker or plugin that i overlooked? Or maybe another way to do this? Rsync perhaps? Thanks in advance. Aran.