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ok, thx for this info. didn´t know that it will be deprecated in a future.

Hi, thx for pointing this out. It does not apply to me since I do not use cache for my shares. I only use cache for storing the vdisks.

Since it does not include system/appdata/domains shares I choosed user0. I don't want those system shares to be shared to the vm. I access them only with krusader's plugin. Anything I may be missing?

ok, after some research I found some info and this is what I did to solve it... edit vm xml and add in the GUI**: "unraid share"=/mnt/user0/movies/ "unraid mount tag"=movies then in the vm do this (or any folder you want): mkdir /home/ws1/movies then: sudo -s nano /etc/fstab and add at the end this line: movies /home/ws1/movies 9p trans=virtio,version=9p2000.L,_netdev,rw 0 0 Reboot and that's it. **the edit of the xml does this: <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/mnt/user0/movies/'/> <target dir='movies'/> <alias name='fs0'/> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x03' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/> </filesystem> I still have a question: if I want to add a second mapped unraid share ... can I just follow the same procedure and add this to the xml? <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'> <source dir='/mnt/user0/series/'/> <target dir='series'/> <alias name='fs0'/> </filesystem>

Hi, how can I find the version of openvpn-as running in this dockker?

In windows/linux I executed the script from the browser connection to Unraid, using the Andrew Zawadzki´s "scripts plugin". I checked the ram usage with window´s task manager and linux´s equivalent. Now I did run a backup again, running the script as I did before, but now I did select the option "run in background" and added 2 more cores to unraid. I checked the cpu and ram usage with the commands you provided. As you posted the cpu usage is around 12%-18% and ram usage is 0.2%. The backup did run without any problems. Great! I gues if I start the script using Andrew Zawadzki´s "scripts plugin" but do not select "run in background" it eats up all my ram. Not Unraid´s ram, but the ram of the pc I use to connect via browser to Unraid´s GUI. This is what I get when the script finishes: Number of files: 57,852 (reg: 52,321, dir: 5,531) Number of created files: 57,852 (reg: 52,321, dir: 5,531) Number of deleted files: 0 Number of regular files transferred: 52,321 Total file size: 169,921,241,556 bytes Total transferred file size: 169,921,241,556 bytes Literal data: 169,921,241,556 bytes Matched data: 0 bytes File list size: 2,883,435 File list generation time: 0.001 seconds File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds Total bytes sent: 169,966,133,523 Total bytes received: 1,038,847 sent 169,966,133,523 bytes received 1,038,847 bytes 72,188,223.56 bytes/sec total size is 169,921,241,556 speedup is 1.00 Try #1 to make backup visible Preserve daily backup: 20201117_114137 Script Finished Nov 17, 2020 12:20.52 Full logs for this script are available at /tmp/user.scripts/tmpScripts/backuptoextHDD_data/log.txt I don´t know if the output is what I should get. I selected "notification=1" in the script. But you can see I get in the log "Try #1 to make backup visible"...what does it mean? Anyway, good news everything went smooth and with no errors. Thx for your work.

Hi, How should I do that to obtain best performance. I want to play a movie located in one of my shares from my debian vm. Rgds

I could spend some time testing this script. I tried to backup 383GB and still got some trouble. Regarding the interrupted backup process I observed it is consuming excessive ram. I tried with a windows 10 x64 laptop with 4GB ram only. The script stops after couple of minutes. Now I tried with a linux vm running 6 cores and 9gb ram + 9gb swap space. I was monitoring ram consumption and it starts eating up ram until it consumes all physical ram and also some swap space. Suddenly it comes to a point where it finds a balance consuming only 15% ram and 19% swap space. Anyway after some time running (340gb backup of 380gb) my vm freezes for a a moment and the script ends without copying the 380gb. I looked at the log file in the new folder created by this script and there is no single error reported. Maybe there is a different log we could look at? Also, I can confirm I cannot edit any share while the script is running. Let me know what logs you need to look at it.

I can confirm -if it helps in some way- that I could passthrou successfully a gtx1660. But before I could not with a gt610. Sent from my NX569J using Tapatalk

Hi, I tried to backup one share (inicial backup). It did not finish. I run the script but it was not running in the background, so I guess due to this it stopped. Maybe I touched something when I went back to the scripts page. Will try tomorrow again. When it ends does the pop up inform that the backup finished? Also, I noticed when it was running I could not change any share permission(read/write) of the other shares. Is this normal? Rgds Sent from my NX569J using Tapatalk

Hi, I am running latest stable. I created a Debian virtual machine (vm) and a share (debian_hdd) to act as a partition of the debian vm (specifically for user data) . I run a similar setup in my windows vm where all the user data (video, documents, music, etc...) is stored and so I avoid a growing vdisk with that data. I created in Debian 4 LVM volumes each containing this partitions: /root /home /tmp /var /swap. Am I right that the one storing my user data is only /home? If yes, then how can I "move/link" my actual /home partition to a share in Unraid? Is there a significant performance impact on doing this? I my windows vm it is not perceivable for me (only while spinning-up my drive). Rgds

Hi, I finally started testing today (did pick up a small share). I still must do some daily backups but it is very easy. Thx! Besides shares backups, I have a particular scenario where I placed some important shares (which are critical to me) in a disk (disk1) which belongs to the array. I am thinking about doing a backup of the full disk instead of several backups of the shares. Do you think it would be posible? Now I get this when I backup a share (isos) using your script. It is the first full backup. /mnt/disks/UD_hdd2/backuptoexternalHDD/Shares/isos/20201023_195306 Maybe in my specific scenario I am looking for this: /mnt/disks/UD_hdd2/backuptoexternalHDD/disk1/20201023_195306 Since I am not into coding I just want to make sure it is feasible. If yes pls let me know what I should look into and I will try to modify the script to adapt it. Rgds.

Thx for your detailed explanation. Will try it hopefully this weekend. Sent from my NX569J using Tapatalk

thx mate!

Hi, new to linux .. excuse my ignorance ... -If I delete the main backup file (the 1st one created=full backup) > I lost everything, right? -If I delete any of the "incremental" backups (the ones starting after the 1st backup) > I should at least have the latest backup file + the 1st one to recover my latest backup status? Just want to make sure what this means. Let´s assume I created a 1st full backup in 10th october 2019. Then I have not been running my server everyday, so I have not daily incremental backups (it is posible that some months the server is not powered on too). Assume on the 1st january 2021 my server is not working. The rule means it will delete all daily and monthly backups (incremental) created during 2020? Rgds

Yes. The script contains: logger Pictures share -t$PROG_NAME logger Unmounting PicturesBackup -t$PROG_NAME logger Pictures Backup drive can be removed -t$PROG_NAME logger Pictures Backup Drive Not Mounted -t$PROG_NAME Excuse my ignorance, but those "Pictures" should not be changed?

Hi, I discovered the script (at the opening post) to make a copy of several shares to an external hdd. In my case I would like to copy several shares (actually all of them on only 1 disk [disk1] ) to an external hdd mounted using UD in /mnt/disks/UD_hdd2. In my scenario what should I change in the script to rsync "disk1" with the external drive? Apart from the latter anything else I should take into account? Rgds

Hi, I would appreciate if you owners of a similar setup can tell me you experiences with unraid so far. I am interested in the following: 1) best iommu grouping out of the box for pass through...pls recommend which motherboard would you buy now 2) any problems still with linux kernel lower than 5, I am thinking of still sticking to latest unraid stable version 3) motherboard that accepts pciexpress bifurcation (not only for raid but also for running 2xgpus@x8_4.0), so that I can put 2 cards in 1 slot 4) any other issues I must be aware of (cpu-core tuning, ....) I considering making a move to invest in such a platform to run 3 vm's with fully dedicated gpu's + 1/2 more to run via VNC. Also some dockers. And also running some nvme raid to be used as disk pool for the vm's. X570 offers only limited pciexpress lanes I cannot use it for this setup. I doubt x670 will soon come out and even then will add more lines. Since it is a big investment for me I would like to make sure in a certain degree that it will work before I pull the trigger. Hope to hear your thoughts. Rgds Sent from my NX569J using Tapatalk

Have you counted the available pciexpress lanes? Sent from my NX569J using Tapatalk

Hi, I am running succesfully Unraid for years, but I always connected to the shares from a windows machine. Now I am testing a linux distro (debian buster) and have no clue to connect to the unraid shares. When in dolphin>network I get the following error "Unable to find any workgroups in your local network". In Unraid>SMB settings I have both Enable NetBIOS and Enable WSD marked as Yes. And in Workgroup Settings>Workgroup is Workgroup. I have not touched anything in Debian. It is a clean install. I can ping Unraid´s IP. Hope someone can hint me in the right direction.

Hi Binhex, thx a lot for this enhancements! I just updated to the latest version. When I try to enter the new variables, I only have this options (but the last 34 are missing: display, required, passwork mask): If I remove the template and re-add it from CA do I need to make a manual backup before? I guess this will solve the previous issue I mentioned. This is my actual setup:

Great answer! This is exactly what I was looking for. Thx mate. Sent from my NX569J using Tapatalk

If I press F3 this is what is opened (no pic). But if you go to VIEW>and select SHOW PREVIEWS the same .jpeg file is displayed in krusader as I wish (just too small). So I think Krusader already has the viewer embedded, just need to find out how to associate a file to it and which viewer is the one krusader is using.

Hi, when I try to click on a .jpg I cannot visualize it. This dialog appears but I cannot assign any programm since I do not know what either krusader may have built-in or what I could use from unraid. Let me know pls how I can solve this.