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Your license is the .key file in the config folder on flash. All of your configuration is in that config folder should you want to keep any of it.
It is seldom necessary to go to the extreme of starting completely over, since Unraid installs itself into RAM fresh from the original archives on flash each time it boots. If all you want is to get rid of some dockers, just remove them. Same for any plugins you want to get rid of.
Unlike some other OS like Windows that might benefit from cleaning out all the accumulated stuff, Unraid doesn't really accumulate anything like that. A fresh install already happens at each boot as I said.
You should at least consider keeping your disk assignments unless you intend to start completely over with your data also.
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4 hours ago, 2twisty said:
crossposted
3 hours ago, binhex said:please dont do this, can you delete the other posts.
Crossposting has been considered a bad thing on message boards since before the World Wide Web. How can we coordinate our responses to your posts when they are in multiple threads?
Let me know if you can't delete them and I will do it for you.
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Unraid is not RAID. There is no mirroring in the parity array. Each parity disk must be at least as large as the largest single data disk. You can have one or two parity, but neither contains any of your data. Parity PLUS ALL other disks allows the data for a missing disk to be calculated.
This is not really any different than the meaning of parity in other uses. Parity is simply an extra bit that allows a missing bit to be calculated from all the other bits. So, a single parity disk will allow a single missing disk to be calculated no matter how many data disks there are. An additional parity disk allows two missing disks.
RAID1 is the mirroring you are thinking of. That is one of the options for the cache pool.
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Are your sure this isn't what happened?
6 hours ago, trurl said:When copying a lot of data, some applications will create the empty folders in advance of creating the files to go in those folders. And those empty folders won't take up any significant space, so they may not trigger allocation method to cause them to be created on different disks. So, when it comes time to actually create the files, where they wind up may already be predetermined by where the folders were created.
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26 minutes ago, morallydubious said:
the first 2 levels of the folder structure are split across All disks and the 3rd level is placed on a disk with the Most free space.
I'm having some trouble understanding this wording and how it relates to split level. Split level and allocation method are independent, and split level has precedence.
The point of split level is to make files below a certain level stay together. So, for example, depending on your folder structure, TV shows might be spread across all disks, but a particular season of a particular TV show might be stored together on the same disk.
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- Many of us, including me, have moved Unraid and its disks to different hardware and it just works. The only things you might have to work out is if you have any VMs with hardware passthrough, or you have disk controllers that don't pass the drive information to Unraid the same way. Some RAID controllers will "rename" the disks so Unraid won't know how they are supposed to be assigned. But those controllers aren't recommended for use in Unraid anyway.
- The only builtin file manager is Midnight Commander (google it) from the Linux command line. It is very capable, and what I prefer to use. It is similar to some of the "Commander" file managers people used in DOS. There are also docker file managers such as Krusader. In combination with the Unassigned Devices plugin, you can also use these to manage files on disks or network shares mounted separately from the array or cache disks. I don't think there is any way to integrate Google Drive into this, but there are ways to sync with various cloud services using dockers.
- You can add parity, one or two or both, at any time.
- User shares are how Unraid allows folders to span disks. Each user share has settings that control how it chooses a disk for writing new files to that user share.
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12 hours ago, Aerodb said:
Hey team, I have noticed my server acting a bit buggy after a week or so and was thinking to use this(user scripts) to initiate a weekly reboot. I think this is built into the plugin but i didn't see a way to set or determine the day and time for the reboot.
You really should try to get to the bottom of your problem. It is not normal to need to reboot frequently. Many people only reboot when installing a new version of Unraid.
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6 hours ago, manolodf said:
Is there a way to restore a backup of only one docker?
Seems familiar, like on that same page as your post:
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3 hours ago, loz678 said:
What does "Recreate your docker.img file if necessary (ideally, this should be performed regardless)" mean?
Settings - Docker. Delete and recreate docker image. Use the Previous Apps feature on the Apps page and it will download and reinstall your containers using the same settings they were using before.
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Share folders are only created on additional disks when they are needed, as determined by split level, allocation method, minimum free, and any include/exclude settings for the particular user share. There is also Global Share Settings, which can exclude specific disks from participating in user shares.
Another thing that can happen, and may be your situation. When copying a lot of data, some applications will create the empty folders in advance of creating the files to go in those folders. And those empty folders won't take up any significant space, so they may not trigger allocation method to cause them to be created on different disks. So, when it comes time to actually create the files, where they wind up may already be predetermined by where the folders were created.
See the Unbalance plugin if you want to get some thing moved to other disks:
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/43651-plug-in-unbalance/
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9 hours ago, 1812 said:
if you have plex running from a parity protected array it’s going to drag
Just to elaborate on this. Obviously your plex media will be on the array. What will give performance problems is if you have your applications installed and running on the parity array. Typically, people will install cache and have their docker image and appdata on cache so their applications aren't impacted by the slower parity writes, and so their applications won't keep parity and array disks spinning.
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Split level has precedence so if split says files should go together then that is where they go.
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9 hours ago, itimpi said:
Sometime you get errors just because the memory modules are not seated properly. Always worth checking for.
And don't use your server AT ALL until memory problems are fixed.
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Just now, egandt said:
No deployed on Ubuntu Linux 18.0.4
Then you should read the first post in this thread.
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39 minutes ago, Marimuria said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "Fresh supervisor log file as minimum..."
See Documentation link in first post in this thread.
43 minutes ago, Marimuria said:"...maybe run command"
See first link in the Docker FAQ:
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/57181-real-docker-faq/
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Diagnostics are just after reboot. Try the activity giving problems again then post a new diagnostic.
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11 minutes ago, egandt said:
I have deployed this using docker-compose
Not clear from your post, are you running this on Unraid?
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Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics zip file to your next post.
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2 hours ago, dv8ed said:
Anything else I can try?
Post docker run command and diagnostics zip
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This is the Unraid forum. Unraid is not RAID. Do you have an Unraid system?
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Probably easy for a newbie to mess this up though. In addition to keeping the original data, you might also consider doing it one disk at a time to make sure you know what to do. No point in even having a parity disk until finished with all the copying.
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2-3 hours per TB of parity, so 12-18 hours would be normal. Something abnormal for you.
On mobile now so will look at diagnostics later if nobody else does.
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2 hours ago, Telcar said:
I hope this thread is still being monitored, if not ill post new don't matter.
I have split your post into its own thread. Please don't post to the FAQs. They are intended to be Answers to Frequently Asked Questions.
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4 hours ago, ProphetSe7en said:
I also want the backup to run on every weekdays and not weekends. How do I make a Custom Cron Entry to achieve this?
For example:
[Support] binhex - Plex Pass
in Docker Containers
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There are 4 different possible settings for use cache, only 2 of those settings will invoke mover, and only one of them will result in moving files TO cache. Also, mover can't move open files so just setting something to cache-prefer (the one that will move TO cache) may not be enough to get it done. Disable docker service, or at least stop the particular container, then run mover after setting it to cache-prefer.
And only 2 of the 4 settings for use cache will result in files staying on cache.
See this FAQ for more details about the use cache settings:
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/page/2/#comment-537383