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I have always been a fan of the rule of three copies (local, off-site, off-line) but with the volume of data I never found a trustworthy method that didn't cost a TON. I mean for a while there was that Cayman islands cloud storage thing... that died quickly. for now the best option I see is a mirrored server offsite. but replicating that amount of data across the internet... not fun even if I invested in WAN-X.

My wording may be a bit confusing. The motherboard and GPU cables didn't fit, so I only replaced those. The HDD cables were reused. Which cause the whole issue.

The truth is, well let's just say most of my data can be downloaded. The only backups I have were of the nextcloud files from August 2020 and what was synced locally to my laptop. So the most valuable lost data was my wife's nextcloud data (so for her she lost everything after August 2020). And determining the value would be maybe 150 bucks to her. Seeing as that is a stupidly small budget and she doesn't care much, I could say that they would be worth more to me as new array drives, but not the data per se. So maybe that's worth digging into more. No idea what companies do that, but I'll search a bit. Thank you for the wise input.

So, I'm having some issues with a docker... those issues aside, I'm looking for a script to schedule a docker reboot regularly, such as every 2 hours or so. I have been working to resolve the core issue but thus far, the only resolution I have found is to restart the problem docker. anyone have a script that can accomplish this?

This is the story of how I managed to fry all 12 of my HDDs in moment of stupidity. (5 min read) To start, we should talk about my setup. To simplify, I'll post my old signature to cut to the chase. But in short, it was built up over time. Slowly adding drives as needed to satiate my data hording. Much of it was Plex media but I had setup things like a Pi-Hole, Nextcloud, personal VPN (for when I wanted to use public Wi-Fi on my phone in a safer manner). Much of this I think is pretty common in our community so my server wasn't really that out-of-the-ordinary. Config - Pre-incident Unraid Plus MB: ASRock X370 Taichi | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 1700 | RAM: 32GB DDR4 | Cooler: Cooler Master MasterLiquid Lite 240 | Case: Thermaltake Core X9 | Cache: CORSAIR FORCE Series MP510 (960GB) | Parity: 2 X WD Red 10TB | Array: 3 X WD Red 8TB, 4 X Seagate 8TB, 2 X WD Red 10TB | GPU: XFX Radeon RX 560 | PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2, 80+ GOLD 650W (Side note- never went full enterprise/rack mounted due to some confusion around backplanes and concerns over fan noise) So this all started back when I resolved to add more streaming capability to the plex server. I simply wanted to be able to more comfortably encode/direct-stream more concurrent streams. Toying with the Idea of adding a Nvidia GPU rather than my Radeon which doesn't support hardware acceleration. But thanks to some great advice on the unraid discord, I would only add 3 or so streams, not a meaningful improvement for the cost. So was still debating a full motherboard and CPU upgrade. But one thing was clear, I would likely need to upgrade my power supply to support any major changes, GPU, CPU or otherwise. Christmas came and my wife, the incredible Rockstar that she is, blew passed our gift giving budget (for each other) to buy me a Seasonic 1300 gold. (before anyone says it, platinum or titanium would be nice, but the power savings would be nominal and the return on investment was negligible especially at the premium). Needless to say, I was elated. I planned to turn down the server and and carry out the upgrade in one day. If you have ever upgraded a PSU, its not that big a deal usually. For anyone who doesn't know. Power supply units convert my American 120v AC power into DC and deliver multiple voltages to the various components. The connectors on the PSU side of the power cables are often keyed or shaped in a unique manner to ensure that they only fit/plug into the correct voltage ports. Square peg, round hole type of thing. Skilled hardware builders out there, you know what's coming. I checked the preexisting power cables. The motherboard and GPU cables didn't fit. Easy enough, new unit has cables. I swapped those out. I double checked my work, plugged it all in, flipped the switch to turn on and the PSU clicked. A Common sign of a power fault or fault protection. Something was wrong. Perhaps something wasn't fully connected or maybe a new cable was faulty. After all, even Seasonic for all their track record, isn't infallible. But nothing looks wrong and I don't NEED the new PSU today, so I'll reinstall the old unit PSU and have the new PSU exchanged as faulty and try again in a week or two. No big. Old PSU reinstalled, turned on, BIOS shows no SATA disks....started trouble shooting and checking. Pulled HDD and attempted to connect directly to a windows machine to just see if the device is detected.... nothing. None of them. If you didn't connect the dots to what has transpired. Though a square peg doesn't fit into a round hole, many other shapes do fit into a square. Including the wrong voltages being unintentionally sent to my disks, frying the circuitry to all 12 disks including the parity drives, not that 2 of those could repair this level of dumassary. I can only explain the emotion I felt as mourning the loss of a loved one. I mean, you must understand, this was my biggest hobby and pleasure. Learning the endless capabilities of what I could do with Unraid. I did check with well known data recovery services but with the sheer volume of data... the quote was $9,000-21,000 dollars. Though they did say that if no data was recovered, It would cost me zero. A testament to the undoubtable quality of work they would be able to offer. But this isn't enterprise data. the financial risk to me was nil. For more reasons that the obvious, this was not a viable path forward. I resolved to rebuild. The sweet spot for storage size, cost, and physical drive slots for me was going with 7 new 14tb drives. It would yield only 70tb of usable storage (rather than my previous 86tb) but with drives of this size, I was definitely going to need/want 2 parity disks again. Also that would help with the prior issue I had of only being able to fit 12 disks in my case. Now I would have 5 more slots to grow into. All in all the new disks would cost me nearly $1900 (pardon the dramatic title but its nearly 2K and the same goes for my 86tb of usable space out of the 100tb worth of drives). Plus with the advent of things like Unmaniac, I will be able to reduce my storage needs considerably, re-encoding as I regrow my data. Shout out to the great Youtube creators teaching me. Linus tech tips, Spaceinvador One, the OGs. The new ones too, Capt. Chaz, The Mysticle, WhiteWitch Craft. I suppose I even owe a bit of thanks to bite my bits, garage escapades and all. The lesson learned that I must have forgotten since my computer building classes in high school... Swap the power cables when swapping the PSU unless you're more than certain they are the same. So that's where I am today. Preclearing the new 7 disks and soon I'll start installing dockers and seeing what I can get going. I tried to tell the story as best I could but feel free to ask anything you like that I may have left out.

Yes I figured it out. I had to remove the recently added scripts and re add them. That fixed it right up.

OK, I have been reading posts for 2 hours now and dont see where or what i messed up. I have DDNS setup with a new url just for wireguard. i use pihole and did input my pihole LAN IP in the config. I have tested on my phone(cell network) and my laptop(on cell hotspot-cell network) both seem to connect fine, but nothing loads (public sites nor LAN sites). I notice in the client log(both on windows/laptop and android app) that its sending the handshake attempt multiple times. i see on the unraid dashbaord that there is no handshake. I can post screen shots as needed and would love to use this instead of openVPN. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.

was this helpful at all? im not sure what im looking at with these logs/diagnostics. fresh copy attached. aeroserver2-diagnostics-20200712-1007.zip

Thank you for this info and your blog post. It helped explain a lot of what i think i need to do to grow beyond my CoreX9 Case (disk space) and current mobo (lack of SATA ports). With the new info, I have three questions I was hopping you could elaborate on... 1- With the SAS/HBA cards (not sure of the difference on these). If the card sits in an PCIx16 slot, how does the SAS card handle power to the diskshelf? it seems like it would only handle the data... Disks->SAS card in disk shelf->SAS cable->SAS card in host computer->host mobo. 2- With the SAS card not handling power for the disks. You mentioned a link of two PSU units. Does this power the disk shelf (fans, disks)? 3- The SAS card in the diskshelf, does if physically mount to anything? i mean, i dont think the diskshelf has a mobo... Any help with these questions is appreciated but also any other info you think would help. Any feedback is appreciated.

Thank you for the catch. second attempt attached. aeroserver2-diagnostics-20200628-2040.zip

Sorry for the delay. I pulled the log and have attached. Think you could take a look and share some wisdom? aeroserver2-syslog-20200629-0051.zip

So doing some more research, i found the video that level 1 techs did with gamers nexus where they built a rig that would act as the "brain" of the disk shelf. Has anyone done anything like this before? Im curious how to connect the two boxes or what the controller card was that wendell mentions but doesnt talk about. Also, will i need to use ZFS or is what unraid uses(if thats the same) good enough? i havent had any issues so far. Long story short, Im thinking this will be a cheap way to gain drive slots. anyone know much about this?

checked syslog, not seeing anything with the word "bread" in it. yet i cant apply any changes in the user scripts plugin. i can only run the scripts or hit done.

I do not see an Errors with any "bread" text. one error but doesn't seem related. Error text below just in case its helpful. error start- Jun 13 17:57:20 SCRUBBED nginx: 2020/06/13 17:57:20 [error] 15488#15488: *12780505 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "GET /admin/api.php?version HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "127.0.0.1" Jun 13 17:57:20 SCRUBBED nginx: 2020/06/13 17:57:20 [error] 15488#15488: *12780507 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 127.0.0.1, server: , request: "GET /admin/api.php?version HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "localhost"

So after much searching i found a fantastic site ( https://www.theserverstore.com/ ) and after checking the equipment they had. I gave them a call. First off i have to say, I have not actually purchased from them as of today. But the guy i talked to for 2 hours educated me on all that i would need to know. With this added knowledge, my plans for my server upgrade changed a ton but i cant recommend them enough based on my call. Be sure to ask about server PSU fan noise and PSU controller cards to reduce the noise. If anyone is not sure what they need when you hit situations like mine (needing more than 12 drive bays and room to grow) at least check their site. They sell on ebay but call them or visit the site directly. There's much better inventory and pricing than their ebay store.

Same issue happened for me. If I change the timing(or disable) any of the scripts, apply lights up(so i can click it). but when i actually click, nothing happens. upon refresh or revisiting this page the changes are not saved. it worked a few minutes ago but not its not.

Reading a bit back on the older posts in hopes of finding clues on options to buy but much of the old cases provided are EOL and no longer available. Still on the hunt for a new chassis or otherwise case to upgrade to if anyone knows of a decent choice.

Hey All, Im having an issue with Lidarr. I have it connected and testing good with my NZBGET container as well as my Plex container. However, Lidarr is finding NZBs to be downloaded, loading them into NBGET, then they are downloaded and NOT imported into the media folder. To be clear, some are loaded but not all. its like Lidarr doesnt recognize some of the downloaded files. I dont see any correlation of which Lidarr moves, and which it doesnt. Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Hey all, I was hoping for some advice. I purchased my current case thinking i would never need more HDD space. Now I'm all out. I am pretty sure i need to jump to something rack mounted and with a "backplane" but I'm not trying to break the bank. So things like a new stornado are out of the question i think. I don't mind buying used if i can find it in good condition and i would like to move over my mobo and AIO cooler. but i an be flexible. The goal is that my mobo fits, and i can have at least 20 drive bays but more is better. Anyone willing to lend advice is greatly appreciated.

on the dashboard. picture attached.

I am having the same issue. VMs were not running or suspended at the time the issue happened. i have CPU pinning set on all Docker images. meaning at least 2 cores are left untouched by any image at all times. When the issue happens, the CPU is pegged at 100%-98%. RAM is stuck at 100%. For the most part nothing responds, the web UI works from another machine on the same LAN. but i cant stop dockers, or even reboot. I also attempted to disable docker in the setting to no avail. I was only able to regain control by launching a terminal window and entering this command. "docker stop $(docker ps -aq)" Which i think is just a docker image stop command. After waiting for about 45 minutes, the command starts to work. all the docker images stop and the system seems to return to normal. Any way you all can help me figure out the root cause? aeroserver2-diagnostics-20200422-1234.zip

That is one hell of a trick. and it tests great too. Thank you!

Hey All, It took some time but i was able to figure out how to get this running with my VPN provider(SlickVPN). However, I now have another ask if anyone can help. I want to confirm that the traffic is all within the VPN. Is there a way to confirm that is is working with the VPN?

Hey All, I have recently noticed an issue where Sonarr shows items in the activity tab that are no longer active in NZBGet, either failed or finished successfully. I have them linked in the Sonarr settings under download client and it tests successfully. Im not sure where the communication is failing. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated

Hey All, I have been struggling with NZBGet marking NZB files as hidden after they fail. I wanted to know if there was a way to disable this. I have seem many of the NZB files fail due to the unpack snagging. I want to be able to put them back to post-process but once they are marked hidden i cant do this. Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.