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Howdy, I am looking at doing some upgrades for my server. I have two more 10TB drives coming in, a LSI controller card, a few other odds and ends. My UPS is too darn small... It lasts no longer than 3-4 minutes when the power goes out and recently it started losing capacity and needs to be replaced with something that can handle what I have. The UPS will have my server, one switch, and one modem on it. I am looking at this one. https://www.apc.com/shop/us/en/products/APC-Smart-UPS-C-1500VA-LCD-120V-with-SmartConnect/P-SMC1500C You can see my specs in my sig. I would appreciate any other recommendations you guys can give me. I don't care for the 'cloud' BS this thing has but I am willing to just never use it. I am also curious if anyone has had any success using the plugins and such to get stats for this thing in unraid, is there a preferred brand for this stuff? Thanks in advance!

Should be an easy win for LT on this one. Doesn't sound too hard and man would it make it WAY more convenient for us who use custom XML to do stuff with our VMs. BIG ol' +1 from this guy 👍👍

And, there you have it! Yeah, I knew I had to be doing something wrong. Learning is a process I guess! Thanks a bunch, Squid, I appreciate it!

Hi all! So, I am running a smidge low on memory right now, not a huge issue but it gets close sometimes. Anyways, I looked into how to limit the amount of memory available to Docker containers so I could more fine-tune those that are way too hungry for RAM. Thing is, it isn't working. Am I doing this correctly? Some shots below how I have the container set up and of my Grafana graph on what it's using. It is totally possible I am doing it wrong and any help would be greatly appreciated. THANKS!

Sorry, not a request for support but thanks! This is exactly what I was hoping for! I use your DelugeVPN container and I use a LOT of other stuff going through the proxy it generates. The only thing is, sometimes, I just need to use a different endpoint and now this makes it easy. Thanks again!

Thank you kindly for the clarification. I actually have a spare 120GB SSD laying around, just have used up all my SATA ports or I would go and make it SWAP and temp file storage. With how picky this board is on RAM, I actually have a 32GB kit installed but it only sees 16GB of it, and the cost of a properly compatible 32GB kit it may be time to toss an HBA in there sooner than later. 😀 Thanks again!

Can anyone tell me if this still can't work on a BTRFS formatted cache drive? I can create the swap file but it won't start to use it and since these posts are old enough, I have no idea if this is still a problem or not.

The GPU is what matters, not CPU.

And of course, you are right. I only wish I had taken that tact with PLEX. I had just set up my unraid server and was on a roll so the possibility it didn't do all that I wanted it to do the way I thought it would hadn't even occurred to me. I ended up with a lifetime Plex Pass without giving it the time it needed for me to find all the problems I would have. However, PLEX does work 'well enough' for now. Frankly, the only stuff I transcode is the hi10P Anime content. The high bitrate UHD blu ray dumps and all play just fine of the Shield I ended up getting because my server couldn't transcode those at full speed. You assertion one should pay the monthly for a while to evaluate really is the better route to go over just paying for the lifetime like I did based solely on what the WIKI and other documentation said it could do. I guess my own shortsighted knee jerk decision should stand as a warning to others. Realistically, I have wasted way more money on way less useful products in my many years on this planet so I can't get too choked up over it. 😜

I'm seriously considering trying out Emby as well and run into the same roadblock, I can't even test out the features I need without paying. Jellyfin is another option and is based on Emby so that will likely be what I test out first as Binhex recently put an unraid template together for it. It's hard when you paid for something and they seem to just ignore some of the more basic functionality things in favor of flashy features no one wants. I mean, I'm by no means above paying for something that does what I want it to, bought unraid after all, but it does kind of have to work. With Plex, I couldn't even try out half the features I intended on making use of without buying it and I have to admit there is definitely some buyers remorse there. Not to mention how little control you have over what is and is not allowed to transcode, a shame really. For people like me, a VM is not really possible as I am already making my poor little AMD server cry for mercy 75% of the time. 😀

Looks like I'll be buying a new GPU then because I don't have a spare card that is compatible, thanks for the link!

My only real question is, how can I know my GPU will support this before I install it? I swear, I will buy a new GPU JUST for this if I have to! This is such good news, I seriously cannot contain my excitement!

Firstly, this isn't so much of a support need but rather a question. I have gotten this all up and running and I am super happy, thanks for that, and I have just installed the Plex Data collection docker. Thing is, the Plex data collection docker is using a LOT more CPU than Plex itself is when idle, is this normal? It seems like the data collection docker is spiking in tandem with Plex, however. So I assume it writes to the DB even on the slightest idle process in Plex? Is there to have it write less often, perhaps every 10 or 30 seconds? I think the constant and very often writing to the DB is the cause. Thanks again for making it slightly less of a hassle getting this going on unRAID. 👍 Hee hee... https://snapshot.raintank.io/dashboard/snapshot/lfKTF3DcnAALRkF6aJyQzJjKV9NBayO3

Heh, literally 30 seconds ago I figured that out. On to the next step!!! thanks!

You ever get this working? I am attempting a new install and get the same error message.

Did someone get a proof of concept to work? Holy hell in a handbasket Batman! I'll pay money, literally, I will pay money to have this. If LT were to add it themselves, I would literally pay for it as a separate addon. I don't think I am alone in this either, I hope this is something the smarter people out there can get together and solve. I just ran into stupid transcoding BS with PLEX again so I got to thinking about it again.

Oh, never mind, I figured it out. I just can't have the WebSocket port the same, so the info I read was totally inaccurate. Working fine now. Thanks!

Yeah, that's my problem. I am either doing something wrong or that method doesn't work. Can you be a bit more specific for me so I can maybe see where I am messing it up? I set auto port to no, set the WebSocket and port to the desired port number, execution error when starting the VM.

How would I go about manually assigning a port for a VM to use? Unraid seems to always have this set to auto so sometimes two different Vms will have different ports than they did last time. For example, I want my Windows VM to always have a VNC port of 5901 and my Linux Mint VM to always have a port of 5902 regardless of whichever one was started first or if only one was started at all. Seems to me there is no GUI way to do it and the one suggestion I found on Reddit didn't work and broke the VM from starting at all. Hopefully, this will be a quick one, Thanks in advance!

Somehow, it fixed itself... I had just rebooted the server but this time I went and just turned the docker engine off and back on while the server was still running and automagically it just started working. Literally no clue but I guess I'm happy now. Strange! 🤣

I double checked and no, no other docker is using that port. However, it is listed twice in the deluge-VPN settings when I go to edit the container. Are both of these necessary? Should I try deleting one?

just now Deluge-VPN won't start and a reinstall gets this message. root@localhost:# /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/dynamix.docker.manager/scripts/docker run -d --name='binhex-delugevpn' --net='bridge' --cpuset-cpus='2,4,3,5' --privileged=true -e TZ="America/Phoenix" -e HOST_OS="Unraid" -e 'VPN_ENABLED'='yes' -e 'VPN_USER'='******' -e 'VPN_PASS'='*********' -e 'VPN_PROV'='pia' -e 'VPN_OPTIONS'='' -e 'STRICT_PORT_FORWARD'='yes' -e 'ENABLE_PRIVOXY'='yes' -e 'LAN_NETWORK'='10.10.10.0/24' -e 'NAME_SERVERS'='209.222.18.222,37.235.1.174,1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8,209.222.18.218,37.235.1.177,1.0.0.1,8.8.4.4' -e 'DEBUG'='false' -e 'UMASK'='000' -e 'PUID'='99' -e 'PGID'='100' -p '8112:8112/tcp' -p '58846:58846/tcp' -p '58946:58946/tcp' -p '58946:58946/udp' -p '8118:8118/tcp' -v '/mnt/user/':'/data':'rw' -v '/mnt/disks/KEVINPC_g/':'/KPCG':'rw' -v '/mnt/user/appdata/binhex-delugevpn':'/config':'rw' 'binhex/arch-delugevpn' 7287b28e9c3c2b095eac00ca44ca684c0614f4b5d27846d8c9efc2a7710f5360 /usr/bin/docker: Error response from daemon: driver failed programming external connectivity on endpoint binhex-delugevpn (3481502e83b48702f7d3e7eccf79040bbf5a169cc598454c1eac98ba84cbd6ba): Bind for 0.0.0.0:58946 failed: port is already allocated. The command failed. I can't get you a log because it won't even start and gives me an execution error. Any assistance here would be much appreciated. I've had it up and running for literally months and months so it was stable and all I did was restart the server.

Whelp, there was data left on the old SSD but unfortunately, it didn't work copying it over. It was only a small snippet of the databases folder for MariaDB and nothing for LE or Nextcloud. All I can assume is running the dockers without their proper data somehow damaged it beyond repair. At this point, the only thing I can do really is just going on ahead and reinstall let's encrypt, MariaDB and Nextcloud again from scratch and try to be more careful next time. Still sucks that the 'proper' procedure outlined in the WIKI was not apparently enough to work properly but I guess if I was more experienced I would have caught the issue beforehand and I wouldn't have had to deal with this problem in the first place. 😢

Oh yes, I had. It had been working for months without any issues at all. My plex.domian.com cloud.domain.com all of that stuff worked fine along with the SSL certs. Nextcloud was working fine as well, I love using the auto-upload features for pics and vids I take with my phone of the family.

Er, you know... I don't think I did. Shit, maybe those missing files are still on the SSD... It's in the server still but fully disconnected since I also added two more 10TB drives to the system and they are preclearing now. The preclear will be done later today so once that happens I can maybe pull the drive out, use a USB adapter and plug it in. If the files are there I can then see about copying them over. Hmm, that might work assuming they are still there. Yeah, I think that is what I am going to do. Hope to god it fixes it. Well, I'll be sure to keep you posted but it seems I can't do anything at all in that area till tonight or perhaps even tomorrow morning. Thanks for the tip.