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Hi, any update on 1.6.(1)? I've pretty much switched to AV1 encoding now but I'm having to use my windows pc which isn't ideal as my pc isn't on long enough to do most of my encodes. Many thanks!

I'm looking to upgrade my old APC BX1400UI to a bigger and rack mountable UPS to power my rack and I've shortlisted the following: APC SMC1500I-2UC It's right in the ballpark for the power range I'm looking at but I am trying to find out whether it can be monitored from Unraid via the LAN port. I have my Unraid server and a Dell R210 acting as my router so I would like both servers to have remote shutdown capability in the event of powerloss so I would like to have one that has network capability. It does have a network port (dubbed the APC SmartConnect) but its not a network port provided by a management card like the SMT and SMX series have. Does anyone have this UPS or another APC that has a SmartConnect network port and can confirm whether you can monitor it using Unraid's UPS daemon? Thanks

Thanks! This fixed the adopting loop for me.

I have my eye on the 3U 316 Pro from x-case, seems better specced then the logic case equivalent from servercase, ie. backplane supports SGPIO. Just wish they did an ATX power supply version so I don't have to buy a new PSU. I don't plan on getting anything until I've moved house in June, but I will keep an eye on your thread see what you get :).

It's an option, I'm from the UK so where would be a good place to start, just ebay? I would still like recommendations however, I'm not really up to date in the networking area on which makes are reliable. Which ones give the best user interface, throughput and noise etc.

I'm in the process of moving to a new house and I'm planning on properly networking the whole place around my unraid server and pfsense box. I'm planning on getting a comms cabinet with a patch panel and a half decent smart switch with 10gb SPF+ connections so I can get a 10gb link between unraid and my personal pc (probably using Mellanox Connectx-2 NICs). I'm having difficulty deciding on one to suit my needs, I've been mainly using HP in the past as I have a few 8 port unmanaged procurve switches that have never missed a beat. My requirements are: 16-24 1GB ports 2 or more SPF+ connections for use with SPF+ NICs Web interface smart management (Cause I'm not a fan of command line, and a bit of a newbie to advanced networking) Network segregation support (so I can stick vm/docker containers on a separate network using the same switch) Link aggregation support Quiet (fanless ideally) The only problem is I don't have a massive budget so I'd like to keep it in the sub £/$ 500 range but I'd like something that is reliable and just keeps running. So far I have looked at: HPE JH018A OfficeConnect 1420 - Cheap but not smart managed TP-Link T1700G-28TQ - Unsure of the make? any good? NETGEAR Insight GC728X-100EUS - Shame all 4 SPF ports aren't 10gb D-Link DGS-1510-28X - Again not sure on make I'm currently leaning towards the TP-Link since its cheap and gives 4 10gb SFP+ ports but I'm concerned you get what you pay for, so I'm open to opinions/other suggestions which would be very appreciated.

Unfortunately, not. I started a ticket with Asus but they where no help at all, I don't have the emails anymore so I can't remember what they said. Unfortunately @chris78464 I ended up buying a new one. The only up side is they aren't that expensive. Even with the new one I can't get the KVM (the remote connection java bit) working so it a waste of money anyway. I'll be buying a Supermicro board as soon as i have the money. Sorry that wasn't the answer you where expecting.

Thanks @opticon that indeed work at getting me pass that error, unfortunately it was then failing on another problem: I managed to fix this myself by changing ownership (recursively) of the authorized_keys directory to user/group 998. chown -R 998:998 .ssh For anyone else who has this problem I think it was down to me running the "New Permissions" tool on the appdata share which I know is not recommended, but I was fixing another access permission problem at the time back just before christmas. The container is now starting fine, just hope I wont get any further issues. Lessons learnt i guess. [EDIT] Wow it seems I really did mess things up, gitlab started and all the project where there but it said there was no code repositories available in each project, I shortly needed a new pair of underwear. I've tried to change (recursive) ownership of the git-data directory as well but after restart gitlab still doesn't want to see whats inside the repositories directory. I guess if I can't fix this I might have to start the gitlab container from scratch, and see if I have a copy of all my repositories somewhere.

Hi, I've booted up my container that I have not used since before Christmas and it won't start, previously it was running fine. It looks like its failing when chef is building the environment, I found this in the '/appdata/gitlab-ce/log/reconfigure' log file: Note: None of the other log directories have 2018 date logs. Anyone got any idea what the problem might be? I don't know if this is related to the 6.4.x upgrade that I did last week. Previously I was on 6.3.5.

Has anyone setup Duplicati to connect to a Minio docker (s3 compatible backend) via the letsencrypt docker? I've attempted to set this up, hitting mino via https in a browser works fine, no errors, but when I try and point Duplicati at it i get the following error: Failed to connect: The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your key and signing method. Pointing Duplicati directly at the mino docker via non ssl works fine. Wasn't sure which docker container thread i should be asking this in but any help would be appreciated.

That looks interesting, couple of bad points as far as I can see. You need to run multiple instances of Minio to keep computers data separate (management nightmare, ports etc). Also Duplicati is a web browser front end, looks good but might be a bit jarring to family members who are used to native os applications. Closest thing I've seen so far however.

I am probably going to upgrade to Crashplan business to fix my unraid backup needs seems like $10 a month is pretty standard in that space, however I am putting money down on Crashplan raising the price in 1-2 years time. I wondered what is everyone doing for an alternative to the computer to computer backup problem that crashplan home provided? I currently have a few pcs in my house backing up and my family pcs backing up to my server via crashplan and i do not know what to substitute it with. Currently looking into nextcloud but that's more of a dropbox access anywhere solution where I want a client side encrypted pure backup solution. Any suggestions?

Thanks I'll take a look, but if I can avoid re-uploading my 10TB it would be nice.

That is good news I am thinking of migrating myself, since Blackblaze and Carbonite don't seem to support Linux this seems the only option for continued unraid operation without a vm. I will eagerly await your reply.

I updated the firmware on my module last week but I made the huge mistake of not taking note that you have to get the firmware that is specific for the motherboard. As you can guess the kvm is now unusable it powers up and the motherboard detects its presence but is not able to access it. The web gui loads via the lan but I am unable to login with any username/password combination I can think of. I have tired re flashing the firmware using the bootable usb drive method but I get an error from yaflash saying it timed out getting the flashinfo, I'm guessing it can't read from it due to the motherboard unable to read the module. I was going to start fresh using the support cd that came with the module but I have unfortunately misplaced it. It seems you cannot download an ISO of the support cd from the ASUS website so I was wondering if anyone would be able to grab theirs and rip it to an iso for me? If anyone else has any suggestions of getting the correct firmware back on without the CD I will also be interested. If I cant fix this I may have to resort to buying another module Thanks [EDIT] FYI the motherboard is the Z10PA-U8

Not really the bit with the cables touching each other are kinda due to the 4 thick wires coming from the molex end, a normal sata connector doesn't have such thick wires, but its more pointing at the manufacturing quality of these cables not purely the molex variety. IMO there's no reason to be using molex connectors these days unless you are using older hardware and absolutely cannot avoid it. I am unsure whether a pure sata splitter (1 male sata to 2 female sata) would be included in this but would you want to take the risk? I wouldn't.

Never use Molex to SATA power adapters, most of them are poorly manufactured and can be extremely dangerous. Get a better power supply with more SATA connectors or a modular one where you can plug in more proper SATA leads. This guy does a deep analysis into the one that caught fire in his server. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAyy_WOSdVc Original fire video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYkof-csPfI EDIT: not sure why my links aren't showing? had to put them in code tags

Ah of course my bad *face palm*

I have a share which is set to high water but the share is set to only use my 1.5TB (disk4) and 1TB (disk5) disks in my array which are the 2 smallest disks in the array (other data disks are 3 3TB). Now when I add files to the share they are being written to the disk4 despite it being at 72% full where disk5 is only at 34%. Now if i understand the high-water rules correctly it takes the biggest drive capacity and divides it by 2 which "should" make 750GB then it should switch over to fill disk5. Obviously this is not happening as disk4 is well over 750GB full which leads me to believe it calculates the high water based on the largest disk in the array rather than the largest disk included in the share setup, Is my assumption correct? Included some pics of my setup.

Just thought I'd give a conclusion to this thread to help anyone who may have a similar issue: I ended up buying new hardware as per this thread (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=49118.0). When I was attempting to boot it up for the first time the new motherboard had an "power LED" light on it that would flash on and off every second but would not power up. The Asus manual did not say anything about the states of this LED but a quick Google people where suggesting it was down to the power supply. I ended up buying another one but it powered on fine after that. I am now starting to wonder whether my stability issues were down to the power supply all along (or maybe a combination of things), something to do maybe about it not supplying reliable power to the motherboard, and the change to the Asus server grade motherboard was more intolerant of this and refused to power on. For reference the old power supply was a 5 year old Corsair HX 650W, and the new is a Super Flower Leadex 550W Platinum. I can happily report that everything is running stable since Saturday as per the build in my sig. It ended up over budget but I think it will be worth it in the long run.

Shop has said 7 days for more stock Since my server is pretty much hanging every day now I've got no choice but to switch boards. Also like the idea that the Asus has an internal usb plug directly on the board, looks perfect for plugging the Unraid USB stick into (yes just being pedantic now) Fingers crossed it solves my problems. Thanks for the help Gary/tdallen much appreciated.

Same I always buy Asus boards for desktop pcs they have never failed me and always stable, I bought a Gigabyte board once and I've always had problems with it, infact its the one that's in my server at the moment! (the one that's causing me to buy this upgrade) I only went for a Supermicro choice as they seem to be highly rated for server solutions. Does anyone think this Asus board could be a bit of a downgrade? should I wait for the Supermicro to come back in stock?

Ahhhhhh noooooo went to order this morning and the Supermicro MBD-X10SRA-O was out of stock with no ETA for more stock. Since I am unable to order this board anywhere else in the UK I've been looking at alternatives. The Asus Z10PA-U8 looks like a viable alternative, similar price and specs but also has IPMI which is a bonus. Does anyone know anything about this board? info seems to be thin on the ground. The UK shop also seems to list it as a Non-ECC which would seem stupid for a server board, Asus site says it supports DDR4 2400 /2133 /1866/1600/1333 RDIMM, which I'm guessing is ECC registered right?

Unfortunately that board doest seem to be available in the UK, don't fancy importing so I may have to stick with the one I mentioned. IPMI sounds good but not essential i guess when I can pop in the next room and hit the reset button. Thanks for the info.

F it, my current server just hanged again getting sick of it, like gary said I originally said stability so dammit I will look into getting the Xeon build i just mentioned. Can someone tell me if the mobo and RAM choices are good?