Mopar_Mudder

I am looking for a simple way to have my Unraid server backup certain folders to a network drive say once a week. I don't want them compressed or encrypted in any way, just a simple copy. I have thought of using something like Free File Sync running on a PC. But I don't really need sync and I would rather have it run on the server.

That did the trick. I had to manually paste in the key file also. That automated process failed with an Error (5)

I damaged my current flash drive (bent it) but it still works. I tried making two different ones today with the USB Creator tool, neither one will boot, says it is not a bootable media. One was a Duracell 4GB and the other a OCZ Rally 2 8GB. Is there a trick too it? Are not all flash drives supported?

I will have to upgrade to a newer version is looks like to do that. Hate to mess with updating when it is unstable, but if that's what it takes I will have to do it.

I am on 6.5.3 and Unraid has run smoothly for along time with 0 down time. In the last couple of months I have a bunch of cases where I go to access the server and it isn't running, powered off. I start it back up and the GUI comes up with the array "Stopped. Unclean shutdown detected." So I start the array back up and all is fine until it looses power again. I thought the problem was my UPS acting up or triggering a shut down so I completely removed it from the UPS and the problem still exists. Of course after the shut down the log starts over so that doesn't seem to show me anything. Is their a way to diagnose this? I don't know it is Unraid or something physical with the server.

This is really starting to annoy me and never used to be an issue until a couple of years ago. Trying to access my server from some devices keeps asking for a user name and password. I have no users on my server other then root and don't want any passwords. I don't even know what to enter because their is no password. Almost seems like Unraid is forcing you to use them? It is really messing with my auto back ups, it will run fine for a long time and then all the sudden it wants a password again.

Well I did some more testing on this this morning and found out something else. I went directly into my router at work (Sonicwall TZ300) and ran a ping test to my unraid box at home. It will not ping from the router, which if I am correct it can not have anything to do with the PC's or windows server at work. From the router I can ping every other PC, printer, network storage at home. I just can't ping the Unraid box, any idea why this would be? Does Unraid log anything if it refuses a connection?

I have a site to site VPN from home to my office. All computers at the office run through a windows 2016 server and are on a domain. My Unraid box is at home, 6.5.3, and is not on the domain, just a workgroup for home. For some reason I can not access Unraid from work, not by IP, Name or the GUI. I can access other computers at home and network back up drive at home, seems to be only Unraid. I can not ping Unraid either. So I don't know if this is a issue with the work computers being on a domain or an Unraid issue. My Unraid is really simple no Docker or VM's, the only plugin is recycle bin. No users all shares set a public. SMB is set to Workgroup. I know this use to work but it has been awhile since I have done it, so I don't know if the issue started when we went to a windows server at work or if it is something else.

Wondering it you got anything working on this. I think I want to do the same thing you are. I just want a copy of my Picture & Video share sync'd to a network drive so I have an extra copy of it incase something were to happen to my Unraid machine.

Is their a simple to use plugin that can be put on the Unraid server to have it back up certain folders or shares every night to a local network drive?

Well it should be simple. I have tried 3 flash drive or different brands and sizes with no success. The first one gave an error while making bottable of "Writing MBR: Access denied". When I tried to start unraid it did start to but then got stuck on "kernel panic-not syncing: VFS:unable to mount root fs on unknown block" The other two flash drives I tried ran the Make Bootable fine and said success. But they don't even boot, just starts up to my hardware monitor and does nothing. I formatted the flash drives Fat32 and then ran the Make Bootable BAT file as Administrator.

Simple enough. It is only a 500MB drive. It is the original one that came from Unraid way back when, before that I booted from a Floppy!

Tried to upgrade to latest version and is says my flash drive is not large enough. So I want to swap it out for a new one. Is their a step by step somewhere on how to do this?

All the files were JPG but I think a couple might have had a "0" files size because they were corrupt and I got rid of them, maybe that caused the problem. I tried again this morning on another bunch of JPG files that have been on the server for along time and all 5 showed up in the bin after deleting. So I will do some more testing on it and see what happens.

I just installed this for the first time as I just lost a bunch of files from an accidental delete, figure this would solve that in the future. I am on 6.3.5 and I can't get it to work. It is enabled and show . files is on. After deleting test files the recycle bin says empty still. Not sure what logs need posting to help. Well it just kinda worked, deleted 5 files and only 2 showed up in the recycle folder.

Yea no back up of this particular folder. how about this, I have seen it mentioned in other post. Not sure how to use it though. https://www.ufsexplorer.com/download_stdr.php

Well I did it, don't know how but I though I had a sub folder in my wifes camera upload selected to delete and it deleted the entire main folder some how. So please is their any way to try and get them back? I know they are all stored on disc 1, file system is XFS and Unraid is 6.3.5 Only thing I have done is take the array off line so nothing can be written to it.

I have been fighting an issue with my HTPC becoming slow to pull data from my Unraid server. I though it was the HTPC because my other PC's seem to access the server fine although they don't use it near as much as the HTPC. So I built a new HTPC to start over, well that hasn't help. So I upgraded Unraid from 5.? to 6.3.5 last week also so it is current, thinking maybe a fresh install would help. Now today I notice that some times the Web GUI becomes unresponsive in Unraid, I have verified this from both the HTPC and another PC, so I am thinking maybe a network issue? I changed the cable from the server to the switch and that did not help. Any way to do any testing to see what the issue might be? I have attached logs if it does any good. server-diagnostics-20180107-1026.zip server-syslog-20180107-1020.zip

I will try the cable, don't have anti virus on the HTPC. The switch and router have been restarted multiple times. Can't imagine it would be as simple as a new cable, but stranger things have happened.

I have been having issues with my HTPC lately playing movies from my Unraid server, and I think I have figured out it is some sort of network problem. I am on Unraid 5.0.3 and have a Gigabit network. I tested copying a 25.5GB file from the server to the hard drive of the HTPC, speeds starts out fast saying it is going to take around 4 minutes but then the speed will gradually decrease at what seems like an even rate the entire time it is making the copy. In the end it took 1 hour and 58 minutes to copy that file to the HTPC. I went to my other computer in the house also on the same wired network and copied the same file and it took 6 minutes, that's a heck of a difference and why I have problems I think. Now the HTPC is newer, fasted, solid state drive, very few programs installed, ect. So by rights it should be faster then my old desk top that has years worth of different junk installed on it. Any way I don't think that Unraid is the issue but any good tips on how to track down they slow network speed on my HTPC?

thanks for all the info, that was great. I do have an old server that I haven't run in years. One of the reasons that I stopped using it is because it has to boot from a floppy and it always worried me with the reliability of floppies. I suppose I could try and fire it up and see if it will run to do the preclear, I will consider it. Is their any sort of chart out their with the different versions of Unraid and what features are different between them. If not it would be a nice thing to have.

My server runs so perfect that I really don't follow the upgrades and such that UnRaid has made. I am running version 5.0.3 and my array if full, so I can't add more drives. So I have two Seagate 4 TB NAS drives on the way that I need to put in my array. One will go to Parity replacing the current 3TB drive, the other will replace a 1.5TB drive in the array and the existing 3TB parity drive will replace another 1.5TB drive. I have no open slots so I can't preclear the drives. Is their any good reason for me to go to version 6 before doing all of this? I guess mainly any speed improvements while adding the drives, I am guessing it is going to me a slow process.

Yea that is what I am trying to do. Funny that it works fine in Media Player but they won't show up in the Music App on the start screen.......

Got my first Windows 8 machine and tried adding my music fold from the Unraid Server to the library and it doesn't let me, says it can't use it. Can windows really not us a network file location any more?

Just going to think out loud here as to how I want this to work. I have three 4 in 3 cages, each one of them has a fan on the front that blows into the case. I have one fan on top of the case that sucks heat out, all other vents are blocked. What I would like: 1) If any drive in its respective cage turns on the fan on that cage turns on. So 1-4 would turn the top fan on, 5-8 turns the middle fan on and 9-12 turns the bottom fan on. 2) When any drive turns on or temp in the case hits a certain point the case fan on top turns on. 3) I suppose a safety that if a drive gets over a certain temp the fan comes on. But I don't see how they could get hot when they aren't spinning, and if they are spinning the fan would be on any way. Guess I am not really even worried about speed of the fan just a simple on off will do, sound doesn't matter. Any sort of simple controller board that can be plugged in to turn fans on and off? Also that Un Raid can talk to.