daninmanchester

Did this ever get implemented? I'm trialling Unraid now and this seems to be a critical missing feature. Especially for my CCTV camera which will basically fill the drive and then start deleting old files.

I'm looking at a refurbished Dell Precision T5500 as a starting point for my NAS. I plan to use for long term storage of files (mostly volume is video / images) For my 3 CCTV cameras to record to. Host a plex server 1 (maybe 2) streams. Connections will primarily be via a Ubiquiti Networks UAP-AC-PRO AP. Machine spec is going to be : Xeon Six Core X5675 3.06GHz (Avg passmark 8261) 32GB RAM 2 x 8TB NAS drives 2 x 256GB SSD Cache drives Upgrade needs are just likely to be adding drives in the short term and this box seems to allow me to add quite a number before I need to upgrade and it comes with ample RAM for the NAS and VMs. Is there anything further I should consider with this setup?

I just came across duplicati. This is free and seems to do everything and need and is very configurable.

I've been playing around with unraid and want to get some backup setup. My plan is to use my legacy NAS box. I want a GUI and the ability to back up incrementally and restore to a given day. I don't want to be playing around with scripts. I have seen crashplan discussed in the context of backup computers to unraid. Can I run crashplan on my unRaid server as a docker and have it create backupsets on my remote NAS? I assume I can also push to the cloud if I'm paying? Are there any free alternatives?

Thanks. So my unraid is mainly a file server and ingest station for SD/CF cards from my cameras. i.e. plug in my memory card(s) to the unRaid workstation and start dumping them to the unRaid volume. Then ideally have the unRaid server take care of any transcoding of videos/ images automatically too. i.e. taking images and videos and getting them all in to a common format for editing. I want to run plex server will also sit on the unRaid box as a docker. I eventually plan to add a second unRaid box with more basic storage / CPU for backup purposes. When it comes to editing or any other stuff my plan was just to have the unRaid volumes available to my editing PC over a 1 Gb connection and pull content in as needed. What wasn't 100% clear to me is if there were 2 CPUs both with the same passmark but one is 4 cores and the other 8 if I am better with more physical cores as these can be better allocated which is what I think you were getting at with your Raw CPUs?

Thanks Sorry, to clarify what does this mean : VM's, Cores vs raw CPU power The difference between virtualization CPU instance and assigning a physical core? I was looking at dual 4 core or a 6 or 8 core in my budget. around 7000-9000 passmark. Transcoding is likely to be a batch process as I ingest the data in particular with batch video files for editing. It would be nice to offload this to a GPU but it didn't look like unRaid was particularly setup for this. Another basic question....why might I need VM over a docker? It seems all key functions such as replication, backup, plex etc are handled within unRaid or docker images. I don't plan to run windows on the box. Useful tip regarding the drives.

Great thanks.

I want to use unRaid it as an ingest station for video and photos, with some encoding and a plex server as well as a general home file server. I'll probably do the ingestion via a USB card reader. I'm upgrading from a 4 Tb myCloud which is slow and full. Initially I was thinking to go for 16Tb and a cache drive of about 250GB. As the base unit my plan is to by an old Dell/HP workstation with a xeon. It will be 1GB ethernet. I'm trying to get a sense of what sort of CPU I need in terms of CPU Passmark and whether faster processor or more cores is likely to be better to overall performance. I'm assuming that unRaid will easily saturate 1Gb ethernet and any CPU horsepower is more about encoding and server functions than NAS? Also how much is RAM likely to be an issue? Would 8Gb suffice?

Thanks. So can unRaid handle another disk outside the raid formatted as btrfs?

I'm thinking of setting up an unraid NAS using a refurb workstation. What I want to know is 1) is it possible to to have "something" running on the unRaid server which creates an incremental backup every night so that I can restore files to a given point in time. In the first instance I would just like to make this to another drive in the same machine until I have enough to build a second machine. 2) When I build my second machine this will be on it's own network connection firewalled from everything. It will have one route so it can see my main unRaid server but nothing can see it. As such it can copy files from server 1 to itself and create the incremental backup on its drive.