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That doc is great, but the beginning leaves me a bit confused still.. In the actual CREATION of the container, my options are completely different than your screenshot, and I can't get it to create through the GUI.. If I click add a container, I get what you see in the attached screenshot (Capture.JPG).. Nowhere to specify what type of container I want to create, except for the pull-down, which only includes sync and Plex as options (templates.jpg). I assume now based on your screenshot that I should have this in my pull-down? I added "https://github.com/gfjardim/docker-containers/tree/master/crashplan" to my template repositories.. is that not correct?

Understand your feeling… been there done that! Firstly are we talking about the CrashPlan Docker (this is the “server”) or is it the CrashPlan-Desktop Docker (this is only the “client” GUI)? I can do some screen dumps later for you if you like? I'm just talking about the crashplan server docker.. I haven't quite got my head around how the "desktop" side is supposed to work on a Linux machine without a GUI, so I'm trying to rely on my Windows machine for the GUI control of it before I open that can of worms..

That is most certainly a problem.. I haven't seen anything about a .identity file.. I will have to fix that and give it a shot - Probably not until late tonight unless I get a lull at work today.. One other related question, especially given "EXTREMEAUDIO"'s post above, is regarding HOW I was supposed to install the container in the first place (hopefully "container" is the right docker terminology??) - I can go to the docker tab in Unraid, and click "Add container" but I couldn't find any way to install the crashplan container this way, so I went and did it through SSH and the "docker run" command I detailed above, but then the container doesn't seem to want to let me view/edit the configuration from the web GUI.. Am I doing something fundamentally wrong here? I'm a long time UnRaid user, but painfully new at docker! Steve

OK.. I found this elsewhere in this thread, and have verified that it is set this way on my UnRaid. The whole section is like this: <serviceUIConfig> <serviceHost>0.0.0.0</serviceHost> <servicePort>4243</servicePort> <connectCheck>0</connectCheck> <showFullFilePath>false</showFullFilePath> <autoLoginPasswordHash nil="true"/> <autoLogin>true</autoLogin> <locale nil="true"/> </serviceUIConfig> Is there anything else in there that needs changed?

Hmm.. I have TRIED to do the tunnel, but my intention is to have the client talk straight to the server.. That being said, I've never seen anything about this "access to unsecured connections" setting.. I'll search for that, but if you see this and can explain, that would be great.. ALSO, for clarification, I just re-checked what I THOUGHT was my crashplan config, which I thought should be in the /mnt/user/crashplan directory, and what I found was that everything was in the /mnt/user/Docker structure, as shown in the attached picture, which makes sense based on my install command afterall.. I changed it to point /config to /mnt/user/crashplan just to prove to myself it was working, and it did recreate all those config files. I still feel like I should be able to edit the docker container, and I'm not sure why it seems "half" installed.. There's no reason to install the config UI side on my Unraid if I intend to manage it from my windows box, right? Thanks for the help!

I am REALLY feeling dumb to have to ask this in a forum topic that already has 24 pages of posts, but I STILL can't get Crashplan to work with Unraid in docker.. My UNRAID is pretty generic, with IP address of 192.168.1.10 and the command I used to install is: docker run -d -h 192.168.1.10 --name="CrashPlan" -v /mnt/user/Docker:/config -v /mnt/user:/data -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro -p 4242:4242 -p 4243:4243 gfjardim/crashplan I set the /config directory to a place I could get to via Windows Explorer to be able to look at logs and stuff, and the docker does create the directory structure where I expect it.. Then, I go to my Windows workstation, and edit my "C:\Program Files (x86)\CrashPlan\conf\ui.properties" file to show: serviceHost=192.168.1.10 servicePort=4243 (all other lines remarked) I can watch in Wireshark that my workstation communicates with the server on tcp/4243, exchanging about 18 packets, and then stopping. The GUI on my workstation never gets past the splash screen. In Unraid's docker config, I see what's in the attached capture.jpg, which doesn't seem to be right. What am I missing? Why are there 2 ports (4242 and 4243?) Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!! Thanks in advance!

No problem.. One thing to notice is that those "Keystone" jacks you have actually have two color codes shown.. one for wiring the 568a and one for 568b.. just wanted to make sure you saw the color code. -Steve

An Ethernet connection can be 568a or b.. it doesn't matter, but both sides should be the same. The difference is just what color wires go to which pairs. USUALLY the color code I see is the 568b. See these pictures: http://networking.layer-x.com/pic/fig017.gif http://jnet99.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/t568b.jpg The difference is which "pair" goes to which pins. 10/100 Ethernet uses pins 1/2 for communication in one direction, and pins 3/6 for the other, so you need to make sure that wires of the same color pairs go to those sets of pins. What is convenient is that if you wire one side as 568a, and the other side as 568b, you'll see that the send and receive pairs are reversed, and so that's a good "Ethernet Crossover" if you want to wire two computers back to back without a switch (or two switches back to back) In your third picture, if you have what you describe in your situation: 1: Light Blue 2: Blue 3: Light Orange 4: Orange 5: Light Green 6: Green 7: Light Brown 8: Brown you will see that your "second pair" (3/6) is one wire each of two different colors (one orange, one green) which is called a "split pair" and wont work at all for Ethernet. This is probably wired to use for a serial terminal or something that doesn't need the high speed data, because with the split pair, the impedance of the wire wont work for anything of Ethernet speeds. Now.. For GIG Ethernet, it is the same as described above except that the pairs on 4/5 and 7/8 are used as well, AND part of the Gig-E standard states that the devices should be able to auto-switch between straight through or crossover, so even back to back, it shouldn't matter which ones are 568a or b, so long as the pairs of wire are on pins 1/2, 3/6, 4/5, and 7/8. If you're doing GigE, make sure the cable is AT LEAST Cat5e or Cat6, NOT just "cat5" When you wire those jacks back together, make sure the wires stay twisted as far as possible into the jacks. In otherwords, don't straighten out all the wires and then put them into the jacks. You'll want the least "untwisted" wire as possible for it to work as well as possible. I hope this helps. Let me know if you need any more help. -Steve

WHY are the externals cheaper than the internals?! This makes no sense!! What does everyone do, buy the external, and pop the drive out to install into UnRaid, or are you actually using it via USB3? I have popped the drives out of these cases in the past, but I'm curious what the implications are on the warranty once I do this. I suppose I'm on my own, and that's OK too I guess.. I don't have too many failures of drives before they are out of date anyway... Comments? Thoughts??

I've replaced my parity drive about 6 times (not for failures, but for upgrades) but have never had a problem with my original USB thumb drive..

Yep.. the problem is that the programmers generally think so too, and will expand programs to require just more than you have... :-)

Yep.. definitely proven true, although I can't understand why.. Seems like once you have a device capable of passing data from SATA to USB, it would be transparent, but OBVIOUSLY something was different.. It's good to have it documented, in case someone else sees the same problem.. Thanks!

Thanks to ALL who helped.. I'm now home from work, via the local MicroCenter store, and after spending an hour putting together my new $750 PC, I'm happy to report that the first drive is up, and I see all the files as expected.. SO.. The moral(a) of the story is (are): 1: UnRaid RULES, if only for the ability to recover data off of each drive individually, rather than having to have the entire set of disks up and running as would be the case with a traditional RAID.. AND.. 2: Backup OFFSITE! I'm the second post today from someone who got REALLY lucky and recovered data after a catastrophic event, but you can't count on it. Crashplan, or similar service is GREAT!! 3: USB Drive enclosures are NOT all created equal. Although Linux saw the el-cheapo "Inland" brand USB enclosure and drive, and saw the GPT partition table, for some reason, it would not let me mount the UnRaid drive until I connected the drive into a normal SATA port.. Thanks again for all the help! -Steve

I also +1 your amazement with UnRaid.. I've got a parallel topic on my similar, 18tb loss, but mine was due to fire... I also had SOME stuff backed up to crashplan, but really wanted to get these drives back.. Long story short, the drives still work, even as stinky and charred up as they are, and I am just now starting to copy the data to fresh new external Seagate 4tb USB drives, which I'll use until I can rebuild the UnRaid (a hotel room is no place to build a small datacenter!) Anyway.. I had read your story earlier today, and I'm glad you got yours up, and happy to report that I'm another happy customer today!! -Steve

Yep.. I think that's my next step.. I'm heading to the computer store now to buy a case/PS/MoBo/Proc, monitor, etc.. :-) My wife isn't going to like the idea, but she'll get over it when I find all the family pictures! :-) -Steve

Yes.. no indication of read errors, and the two of the five I've plugged in look exactly the same, and act exactly the same re: partition type and status.. That's why I'm hopeful that it's just me misunderstanding or a misconfiguration or something with the new hardware..

After doing some more testing, and reading, I have some new theories, but I'd like to bounce them off the group to see if anyone has any experience with this... When Reading with the "DiskInternals" reader, it told me that the disk was empty. When reading the disk with fdisk, I see a partition on the whole disk, of type "ee" which I have now read is a partition type saying that there's an EFI partition to follow - Kind of a method to "hide" the disk from being thought empty by an MBR-only aware system. BUT, when I use the gfdisk, it shows the MBR partition table, but no GPT table. It wanted to create a new GPT table, but I haven't let it write to the disk yet. I'm wondering if the old UnRaid it came from didn't understand GPT, and so UnRaid fell back and used some other way to access the disk, whereas my newer machine now has native GPT support so it's trying to do the "right" thing???

I've had one of those too.. but I've also had a molex "Y" cable where the pins were actually wired wrong on one of the plugs. I always check now before using any "Y" or extension cable.. I've also had great luck swapping boards, although my experience doing so was in 1992, when my ONE GIG SCSI drive was $1000 and state of the art, and I managed to kill the board with static by putting it down on carpet.. Easy swap in those days.. Sounds like it's a bit more involved (firmware, etc..) today, but still worth a shot!

Just tried the SystemRecoveryCD and it didn't like it.. I think I might just pop open one of these Seagates and try to put my drive in there, and/or just bite the bullet and buy a new server to be my UnRaid box and just deal with having to move more stuff when we get out of the hotel..

But.., If the laptop uses a 4tb Seagate external, does it not imply that the laptop can handle GPT? It's a brand new (6 week old) Toshiba Satelite i7 with Windows 8.1..

@dgaschk.. Thanks.. I'll try that CD.. @RobJ.. I'm not too familiar with the requirements to support GPT, but my machine is brand new, and I have some Seagate external 4tb drives formatted for Windows that are working fine (they were supposed to be the ones I'm rescuing the data to!) so if the MACHINE has to be GPT capable, I think I'm good.. If there's any way that the USB enclosure has to also understand GPT, then perhaps there's something to that.. I bought an "Inland" brand USB 3.0 enclosure and put the UnRaid disks into it. I'll have to check the Inland docs to see if they mention such a thing, and/or if anyone knows if GPT would also be a function of the USB enclosure for sure, that'd be a great help. I guess worst case is that I can buy a desktop PC, but since the fire at my house, I'm living in a hotel until the insurance company can find us a rental house, so I was hoping to limit the amount of hardware I buy before I can settle in a little bit!! :-) Thanks! Things could be a LOT worse.. I could be using a "normal" RAID and not even have this option to recover on a per-disk basis.. UnRaid ROCKS!! -Steve

Thanks for the quick reply, and the idea.. I had tried another Linux filesystem reader, but I hadn't seen this one.. I just tried, and it also sees the drive as "empty" even though I know it's not.. Like I said in the first message, I did boot a live CD, and I booted an actual USB stick with UNRAID on it, figuring that would be the safest, and it DOES see a valid partition table on the disk, of type "ee", containing the whole disk.. Maybe one thing I can ask - Does fdisk -l on a running UnRaid show the individual disks with partition type of "ee" or is my disk reading incorrectly? Has anyone else ever mounted an UnRaid disk in an external USB adapter and successfully seen files, either in Linux, or in Windows using an installable file system like this? Thanks for the help!

Sorry if this has been answered before - I've done a lot of searching, and it SEEMS that what I want to do should be easy.. Long story short - I have an UnRaid server w/ 4tb and 3tb drives. I had a house fire, and have recovered the drives, but don't yet have a PC/server to put them into, so I'm trying to recover files from the individual drives. I have ONE laptop to test/play with.. I've tried LiveCDs, and a VM Ubuntu running on my laptop, and most recently, I installed UnRaid on a new USB stick and booted the laptop from it directly. I was expecting to be able to mount the individual /dev/sdx1 partitions but the mount command gives me a "special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist". The partition shows starting on cluster 1, and is type ee. I've seen threads that mention large drive partition alignment, but from what I'm reading, it should be OK since it was working in my Unraid up 'till the fire. I'm thinking it must be some sort of disk geometry mismatch between the controller that was on the MoBo of the old server, vs. the USB3 external adapter I'm using for rescue purposes... Can anyone give me any insight or ideas? I'm REALLY desperate to get some info back, especially since I had the fire.. there's a lot of house documentation I really need to get!! Thanks in advance!! -Steve

Hi - Thanks for reading this.. I've had a house fire, and lost ALL of my computers except for the laptop I'm using to type this. I had an unraid server with 6 disks. The disks seem to be in OK condition, even though the computer basically melted around them. I've bought some external drives to move the data to, and a USB drive adapter to allow me to plug in each disk one at a time to copy data from it onto the new external disks. I've installed an Ubuntu VM under Win8 HyperV in hopes of mounting the drives, but I'm having no luck. Can anyone tell me the easiest way, either with Windows, a VM, or perhaps a live disk to let me get to the data before the drives die from exposure to acidic smoke or water.. Thanks! -Steve

I'm having the exact same issue on 5.04, also upgrading a 2tb drive to a 4tb drive.. My drive lights are flashing, and from the telnet session, I can see directory structures in all the /mnt/disk? directories, so I ASSUME that it's doing some part of the rebuild or something, but I have no web gui or shares other than \flash. Is this normal now?