RussellinSacto

Hi Everyone, I think it's literally been a couple years since I last posted... Unraid has been so reliable. Well... Now I need help. The other day, I went to do my parity scan... and noticed a red ball on "Disk 1" (SN ending in 5W1G). Not a big deal, I had two drives already live on the system that had pretty much nothing on them (Disk 5 could easily hold everything that was on Disk 1). So I opened up Putty (for speed) and used Midnight Commander to move files from Disk 1 to Disk 5. It ran and ran... More than 24 hours - I knew it would take a long time... I wasn't worried about it. (I knew I'd later need to figure out how to remove Disk 1 from the set and rebuild parity, once the data was moved). I understand that Disk 1 had already failed and the "move" was from dataset/parity combination to Disk 5. Anyway, today I came home from work - and heard that evil hard drive clicking noise continuously... and errors on the Midnight Commander screen. So, I cracked the case, disconnected power and data to Disk 1 (not parity) and fired it up. In my browser, I now have an ugly scene: Disk 1 Not Installed (I think this is what is said before)... and Parity Disk and Disk 2 are now Missing (see attachment). I need advice on what to do to keep as much as possible of my data. As a possible aside, my last two drives are on a standalone SATA controller card - all the rest are on the motherboard. Maybe the MB has died? Thanks for your advice, Russell

Just FYI for others - I had tons of these Transport endpoint not connected issues when running Crashplan - it'd crash my user shares in under an hour. Upgraded from RC8 to RC12 and everything has been AWESOME for more than 24 hours. Hope this helps someone, Russell

Thanks Tom, I hope that's it... Helmonder, my total plugin count: UnMenu, CrashPlan (which I guess loads SSH, but not sure), and PowerDown. I'm a pretty plugin free guy. :-) Both my UnRaids are crashing like this - and both are 100% Lime-Tech Spec (the physical boxes they sell, except maybe different cases - I can't remember that part). Thanks, Russell

Any updates on this? I'm getting a lot of these "Transport endpoint not connected" errors in my logs and my user shares then lock out - permission denied, but still visible. (Disk shares are unaffected, web interface unaffected). Running CrashPlan and Unmenu, not really anything else. (Using Unmenu to stop/restart samba doesn't help). Any ideas? Thanks, Russell

I've figured out how to get CrashPlan to run for a "longer" amount of time - like two or three days instead of two or three hours - by lowering, in the Crashplan GUI, the "Settings" tab, "When user is away" and "When user is present" percent CPU settings - pretty low - like 50-60%. I still have a ton of the "Transport endpoint is not connected" errors when it does crash. Any ideas? Thanks, Russell

Anyone who can set this up for me? I'd be a paying customer. :-) Russell

Hi Helmonder, I didn't find any out of memory errors in my syslogs. I posted them with the original post - please let me know if you see anything that makes sense. :-) Everything seems fine until I put my two Unraid machines under considerable stress - like when I have CrashPlan blasting a lot of files from one to the other and then try to open and save a bunch of files on a couple of computers at the same time. Maybe it is memory related... Or maybe it's the CrashPlan plague I seem to have. I only seem to have problems when I insist on CrashPlan working. Open to more ideas, Russell

Thanks Joe! You were posting that as I was posting my message - it warned me about a reply as I was writing. I've got your suggestion included in my GO file... So now I can start to turn up the heat and make these babies crash again! :-) Thanks, Russell

Wow... unlucky me. I have two Unraid machines - intending to have one backup the other via CrashPlan. I already posted issues with my "Destination" Unraid machine... Now my "Source" Unraid, my main unit, has issues. CrashPlan's GUI shows the backup complete... which seems odd. So I clicked the Change button and checked another folder to add to the backup. Now it shows all of the folders to backup as "Missing". I guess it makes sense the backup is complete if the folders are gone... but how can they be gone? I can see them from \\tower\foldername... But I can't access them. I double click them and get a login box - using root and my password I can't view them - the login box flashes and comes right back. UnMenu had crashed too.... but was able to relaunch it from a Telnet session. In the web interface all my shares show as Exported and Public. Using UnMenu I stopped and restarted Samba - but that didn't change anything. Attached is my syslog. Not sure what to try here - except attempt a safe shutdown and restart. Any ideas? Thanks, Russell syslog.txt

Hi Everyone, I have a pretty bare bones UnRaid with UnMenu and the CrashPlan plugin, that's it. I use it as the Destination system for CrashPlan to backup my primary UnRaid. This morning it's dead - crashplan reported it not working, then no web interface, no unmenu interface, and nothing at the keyboard/monitor connected to it... I was super surprised when I was able to Telnet to it and save the syslog; I can also browse my shares. Anyway, the syslog is packed full of "Bad Swap File Entry" messages. Not sure what these are or if they're the problem. I need this back up and running: A. Unable to get web interface working with "nohup /usr/local/sbin/emhttp &" command: "[1] 6820 nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out'" B. Unmenu isn't available after "/boot/unmenu/uu" command. C. The "powerdown" doesn't error but doesn't seem to do anything (it's been ten minutes). D. Following Joe's instructions for a safe shutdown (http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2516.msg19883#msg19883) I get to the "done" command and then the console replies with: "umount: /mnt/disk1: device is busy. (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof( or fuser (1)) E. Right after that last step, I can no longer connect via Telnet. No idea what else to do... just pulling the plug to restart. Any better options for the future? Anything stand out as the original cause of issue in the log file? Thanks, Russell syslog.txt

I happen to have a pretty good crash right now where this AutoSave sure would be nice... Not only can I not Telnet to the Tower, I have a monitor and keyboard connected to it and the display is off - and pressing the keyboard didn't do anything... Sure would be nice to know what got it to this situation. :-) Any ideas? Russell

Hi Jason, I'm no pro, but no one has answered your question in ten days so I thought I'd take a swing. I have a similar situation to yours (until recently anyway). I've had one UnRaid box for years and two flash drives. I've learned that as long as you keep both flash drives to the same version of UnRaid it's quite possible (in fact rather easy) to do what you'd like. Here's the few rules I've learned: 1. ALWAYS print the main screen of your UnRaid configuration (the screen that shows the Hard Disk Serial Numbers). You'll need this to get your array recognized should you somehow botch everything else. 2. ALWAYS keep a copy of your .key files on your Windows machine or somewhere else where you can easily locate them - They are located in the "config" folder on each flash drive. They only work with the flash drive to which they were assigned so you'll need to keep track of that part too. Mine are named Pro1.key and Pro2.key (that's how Tom at LimeTech shipped them to me) - so I took a Sharpie and tagged each disk as 1 and 2, so I know which file belongs on each one. 3. You can now do as you like. My procedure is typically to delete all the files on the flash drive, unzip the UnRaid files to the clean flash drive, run the the "make_bootable.bat" file on the flash drive (it's part of the UnRaid package) and then copy the key file back to the config folder. 4. At that point, you can fire it up, assign your drives in the right order (that you printed in Step 1) and you're good to go. 5. I often want a clean setup which the above will give you - but there's some worthwhile shortcuts. Before you boot up your clean flash drive (which you made using steps 1-3, above), you can copy everything from the config folder of your original Flash to the new one with the following exceptions: A. The license file (you want the right one to remain) B. Anything in the Plugins folder C. The go file - which may load other things. This shortcut will copy across a lot of the good stuff - your drive order, your user shares, and - as I understand it - most of the basic settings in a typical UnRaid setup. You can then perform your "THEN" steps without any issue, always able to go back to your prior config with a quick usb swap. While I now have two unraid boxes, I've not set either up with a Cache drive. You can do everything I described above with your laptop... and then you simply swap the flash drives to see if your plugins are working and such. (Getting CrashPlan working is exactly why I figured this out) I don't know why you'd load anything on your "cache drive" before it's loaded in your UnRaid box - in fact, I think I recall the experts advising against this kind of thing.... I'm not sure I fully understand exactly what you're trying to do - but I hope this helped. Russell

I'll just mention that I bought my flash drives from Tom directly (twin pack - originally one was set aside as a backup for exactly the situation you describe - but now that's grown into a full blown second Unraid server to backup the first one). The one's that Tom shipped me have never been replaced - and I think it's been about four years of non-stop use for one of them (six months use for the second one). Support LimeTech and just buy them from Tom. He won't ship junk cause it'll be a pain for him later. :-) Russell

Hi Everyone, I'm constantly having my UnRaid boxes crash... super frustrating. I don't know much about Linux and don't have the time to troubleshoot the crashes when they occur - so my main priority is getting them back up and running... regretably, I don't take the time or always have the opportunity (complete crash) to save the syslog. So a couple questions: 1. Is there anything else I should be looking at when troubleshooting rather random issues? (mostly CrashPlan related) 2. Is there a way to either redirect the log files to disk1 or have them mirrored there? Or something? Thanks, Russell

Hi Guys, I'm so frustrated with CrashPlan (paid for several years of service!) that I've got to find another way to do this. I have two UnRaid boxes (both about 16TB) and getting one to backup to the other is a constant headache... Something always crashes on one of them. Earlier today, CrashPlan quit on my "destination" box - I don't know why - and sure enough, starting the CrashPlanEngine fixed it... then three hours later and my "source" box has SMB crash (don't know why) - and it seems to always be this kind of thing. Has anyone gotten RSYNC to work over SSH? I eventually want my "destination" Unraid to be Offsite. Please make a plugin so linux know-nothings like me can use it! :-) I seem to recall a couple people on the boards talking about doing exactly this. Any ideas? Thanks, Russell

OR mail me the three and I'll send you a two!

Oh... In the BIOS, I had to go to boot order, boot devices, choose hard drive - and my flash was in the list there... had to move it to the top, ahead of the "other" hard disks. Hope that gets you going too!, Russell

Kingpin, I got mine working!!! The HP format utility - and specifically I formatted FAT instead of FAT 32. Then loaded the UnRaid Zip files, ran the Make bootable thing, and copied my license file over. It's working! Let me know if yours does. Russell

Hmm.. I know virtually nothing about Linux and how this works - but "plugin" doesn't seem to be anywhere in my log file. The only Google matches I find for /plugins/Notifications/notify.php have to do with "Simple Features" - but this was a clean load, so I don't know where to look for solutions. Thanks, Russell

I've tried everything I can think of... the USB lights up right at poweron (I've tried all the USB ports)... the drive just doesn't seem to be found by the BIOS - but this exact drive was found by this exact same machine only an hour earlier. Strange... still looking. Russell

Hi Everyone, I have a USB key that I booted yesterday - and now I've loaded it with the latest Unraid (5.0-rc8a) and run the "make_bootable" batch file as described in the release notes (http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Server_Version_5.0-beta_Release_Notes). Oddly, now it won't boot. I've tried reformatting it and repeating the process. Even tried reformatting with the HP USB Format utility and repeating the process. Any ideas? Thanks, Russell

Attached. :-) syslog.txt

Hi Everyone, I've got a brand new UnRaid build, finally. I had been tinkering with a second machine for a long time (bought two keys many years ago)... Anyway, I had been using the key as a backup to my original UnRaid, so I was keeping it updated and with the same config as my original UnRaid. I wanted to start clean... so I did the following: 1. Made a backup of the entire flash on my Windows machine. 2. Documented the order of my drives. -- 3. Deleted everything on the flash. 4. Downloaded a brand new UnRaid Server 5.0-rc8 and copied all of the extracted files to the flash. 5. Copied my key file from the backup to the Config folder on the flash. -- 6. Booted the system with the flash. 7. Reassigned all the hard drives into the proper position (based on my former documentation). 8. Went to the Settings tab -> Identification and renamed my "Tower". 9. Restarted a parity build (I think I could have "told" UnRaid that the parity was valid, but it seemed safer to let it rebuild). I brought the array online with the rebuild and everything is beautiful... I can access my disk shares from my Windows machines and read my files.... But there's one odd thing: On the console screen, I get lots of the same error (about every 5-6 seconds): "Could not open input file: plugins/notifications/notify.php" I haven't loaded any plugins or tinkered with anything. This is basically a clean UnRaid. I confirmed the ZIP doesn't include that folder or file. Any idea what the issue might be? Thanks, Russell

Thank you Influencer, That's exactly the kind of tip/best practices I was looking for. Any other great advice on this setup? :-) Thanks, Russell

Hi Shat, I have a little less data than you - 18TB... But it's 100% personal data (family archives of videos, photographs, family tree, etc.) Would love to see a plugin - I bought three years of CrashPlan to get me started with this, so you have some time to get the bugs worked out. :-) I understand it'd cost a bunch to backup to JungleDisk - which is why I have a second UnRaid built... and I know it will take a long time to sync them over my network - but once that's done, I think they'll be able to stay fairly identical over the Internet. I was wondering about "best practices" I guess on drive positions - is it easier if "disk3" on both machines is exactly the same size? It seems to me that'd make things easier for the human involved? :-) Thanks for your ideas, Russell