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Thankyou. I unplugged and replugged and all is back up and running now!

Yes, there is a cache drive installed. What do you think has happened?

Hi, I've updated Unraid and now i'm getting messages saying things like Docker has failed to start. Anyone able to help?tardis-diagnostics-20251227-2053.zip

Any suggestions here?

Hey, Just seen Ubiquiti's new UNAS 4 device and been considering changing to one from my Unraid. But I do have some thoughts and questions i'd like to ask here first. One beenfit of the UNAS 4 is that it is a lot smaller. Downside is it's less functional. My main current use of Unraid is as a NAS. I do have Plex on it but over the last year or so i've really not used that functionality much so wouldn't necessarily miss it. I'm finding unraid more "manual" on everything, Which I do understand is sort of the point. What I am wondering if you guys can help with are finding solutions to the main issue I have with Unraid and that's achieveing simple and easily configurable backups. I don;t want anything over-complicated or needing a lot of set up steps. Basically I have a share called Photos. I want to back that up to My Backblaze B2 account. I do not want it to backup in the form of duplicati (I already have that set up and running right now), I just need a one to one copy of my Photos share in B2. Just a nice easy GUI to enable me to set it up and run it. Can anyone help here?

Hi, I must have knocked the usb stick on my server yesterday and Unraid couldn't find it or said it was corrupted. I turned the server off, reseated the USB and restarted it and all is good but I want to place the USB internally so this can't happen. My motherboard is quite old (ASRock B360 Pro4). Do you ahve suggestions as to how I can put the USB stick inside the machine to avoid this? Also, I could do with a new USB stick instead of the crappy one i'm using. Can you recommend one?

Ok. That looks nice. Can’t find anywhere to buy it though. Not available on Amazon or Overclockers so I don’t know what price it goes for.

I wish to tidy up the internals of my Unraid and moving my HDD's into a cage is next up. Can anyone recommend a cage to go in 3 5.25 bays. Could you recommend one regular and one hotswap? I saw a topic but it all looked very out of date. I did see this one: https://global.icydock.com/product_45.html, but can't find anywhere that sells it. Is it any good? Is hotswap compatibility recommended? Just wondering? Also on a linked subject, are there guides for how to replace a drive in an unraid server if something goes wrong? I'm not an advanced user so could use some help. Thanks!

I don;t really do much with my server these days, but I really need a new case. Don't need it super pricey, but I have drive attached storage devices. Cabling is the biggest issue currently. The top half of the front of mine is taken up by 5.25 bays which i don't use. I'd like one with easy to manage storage drive areas. Recommendations?

Hi, Looks like one I made ages ago. It only had a couple of old files in. I will delete that share as I no longer need it, but have changed it to store on the Array. There was one small audio file in there.

As requested! Didn't know about that. Thanks. Hopefully this can provide some more info! tardis-diagnostics-20230820-1540.zip

Hi, Just wondering if this amount of usage is correct for my cache drive? I've initiated the mover several times but the usage doesn't appear to decrease? Is this looking ok?

I just checked these and enabled enhanced MacOS support. This now allows me to access the Backups directory. The lost+found folder i'm not too worried about. It still has the no entry sign on it and won't let me in.

But this is precisely why I posted asking for help. To find out why I cannot access it like a regular share.

It's exported as a Share so surely I should be able to access it just like any other share?

yes I understand that, but why can’t I access it? I have several sub folders in the Backup one but can’t access them. What’s the no entry sign icon for? surely I should be able to access them via Finder?

Hi, I have one 3Tb disk in Unassigned Devices. It has one partition that I have labelled "Local Backups". I have set it to be shared. When I connect to it via Finder, the folders within show up as in the screenshot. Why is this? The disk is also shown in the second screenshot: Thanks in advance, Neil

Looks like a connection had failed. It was using a very dodgy cable. I've recabled things temporarily and will fully sort it out in a few days. Just checking things are all working in the dashboard. Thanks

It's an SSD. I'll go check it's connection.

I've juts stopped the array but the cache disk is not showing for me to choose from. What could be going on?

Yes, I have a single cache drive. Edit: It looks like the cache drive has vanished. Where's it gone?

Hi, My Docker service is failing to start and it says some paths don't exist next to "Default appdata storage location:" - I've not changed anything apart from update the Unassigned Drives and My Servers plugins? My diagnostics are attached. Can someone help? Thanks, Neil tardis-diagnostics-20220126-2018.zip

One quick Q: When setting up a share to be used as a time machine disk. Does that share need to be mounted in MacOS before TM will see it as available or should it just show up?

Hi, Thanks for that. Couldn't the two veto files lines just be added to Global?

@Kaj Many thanks for sharing your setup. I may try exactly this when my new MacBook Pro arrives in 2 weeks. Just in aid of clarification, you have <ShareName>, is this a scenario where we change those to be our own share names or is that literally meant to be left as <ShareName> and effectively work for all other shares without explicitly specifying a name?