servidude

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  1. Hi, I am using the .ovpn from my provider (NordVPN) and am able to connect, but only if I put the username and password in the VPN_USER and VPN_PASS environments. And credentials.conf in the ovpn directory apparently gets populated by them, the environments overwrite the user/pass on every boot. Question: is there a more secure way to do this? Would rather not have my login details in cleartext on the Docker page... Thanks for any tips!
  2. I know of the "Flash Backup" button under Flash Device Settings. Does it call a particular script? Or does it just zip up the boot drive? Asking since I would like to automate this (create a weekly backup etc .) Thanks!
  3. Oh, I see. Thanks. So more of a cosmetic issue then? Still, not intuitive.
  4. I am seeing a bug in v6.7.1's Dashboard, under the "Array" section. Clicking on any of the "SMART" thumbs-up icons brings up a menu of options: Attributes, Capabilities, Identity - but all the links actually lead to the same page. Looks like the HTML anchor ("#") link is broken, I always get the top of the page... Attaching a screenshot. Please let me know if you need any further info.
  5. Are you the original author of emhttp? Do you still get to do any coding? If so do you do most of it by yourself? Thanks for this slick, powerful OS!
  6. As @itimpi points out, the File Integrity plugin checks on a per-file basis. It gets confused (understandably) by constantly changing files like docker.img, so be sure to exclude those from your checks if you don't want a bunch of false positives. Interestingly if you use BTRFS for your data disks you can do a "btrfs scrub" from the web interface which will provide the same functionality (detect, but not fix corruption). Good question! I think the concept of bitrot keeps many of us data hoarders awake at night. ๐Ÿ˜„ I don't think it's impossible, but I also think it's pretty rare. Like your friend I have encountered corrupted files before (it's easy to tell with JPG, ZIP etc. - who knows, there might be more) but my hardware (flaky motherboard) and OS (Windows 98 ๐Ÿ˜‚) were probably to blame for that. Either way, nothing can replace backups, even if you're using something bulletproof like ZFS you will need them!
  7. Are you sure you got this right? One of the greatest strength of unRAID (in my opinion) is the fact that each disk is a separate file system. So, as I'm sure you've heard before, if more disks fail than you have parity drives, you can still recover data from the remaining disks since they're each an independent file system. Unlike in a RAID5 array, for example, which stripes data across multiple disks. Lose too many, and all your data is toast. But unRAID's independent disks also mean there can be no "automatic" file integrity fix. There is no overarching file system that can locate redundant copies of corrupted files (like it does in BTRFS, for example). So it looks like you can either have one, or the other. I'm no expert on file systems but given the devs' silence on most things related to BTRFS and file integrity, I doubt anything like this is in the pipeline. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, of course ๐Ÿ˜‰
  8. Thanks @johnnie.black! Appreciate you sharing your efforts. The script looks good, a lot better than some of my past bash efforts ๐Ÿ˜† You could automate detecting the number of disks using something like: ndisks=`ls -d1 /mnt/disk[0-9]* | wc -l` for i in $(seq 1 $ndisks); do ... Probably overkill, but I always think the less is hardcoded, the better...
  9. Thanks, dude. Is your script publicly available? I have seen a number of scripts for btrfs snapshotting but none unRAID-specific so that would be helpful.
  10. I recently set up my uNRAID 6.7.0 server to use SSL (use SSL/TLS = Auto). I also have my router setup to use OpenVPN. When I VPN into my home network, and try and type my server's IP (192.168.etc) into a browser, I get a SSL certificate warning and cannot proceed... see below. I am assuming this is caused by a conflict between unRAID's SSL certificate and my router's? Any way to mitigate the issue? Before I had SSL turned on, I was always able to use this method... Thanks for any advice!
  11. Yes. That's one of the more powerful features of unRAID IMHO, although it does make BTRFS snapshots more complicated. Would you suggest forcing shares to be on particular disks (as shown here for example) in order to make the snapshot procedure simpler?
  12. Nowhere under /usr/local/emhttp as far as I can tell. Anyone? How to add custom models to this somewhat arbitrary collection? It almost seems like it was designed with custom icons in mind...
  13. No, none. rsync is a fine tool and I use it too. I just identified what I think is a possible insecure link in the chain of transferring my files to the server: copying file from workstation -> NAS (cache drive), can be verified by using a tool like TeraCopy cache drive -> array, no verification
  14. As far as I can tell, the Mover currently represents the most risky stage of unRAID operations - it's a simple rsync from one location to the next, with no additional check that the data is copied over intactly. I am basing this on a copy of the shell script here. Would it be possible to add something like a md5sum of each file before and after, as an option? Thanks for your time.
  15. Is there an easy way to run Linux mdadm on the unRAID shell? I don't see it in either the "Dev Pack" or "Nerd Pack" extensions. I have a disk that was part of a mdadm RAID5, and Unassigned Devices won't mount it since it doesn't recognise the file system. Fair enough, I could use mdadm assemble, but the command doesn't exist in unRAID. Any suggestions?
  16. Thank you! Unfortunately, the output from arp didn't include the MAC address of my VM... ๐Ÿค” Is this a sign that something else could be wrong?
  17. Does this mean an IP address somewhere between 192.168.1.0 and .24? Trying to install XPEnology in a VM, so I need an IP to access the web interface.
  18. You can click on it to make it bigger ๐Ÿ˜Š Thanks for your reply.
  19. I'm going crazy here setting up a VM and trying to access it on my network... I've set up a bridge (br0) in Network Settings, and set my Linux VM to use it, but even when it's up and running I can't see anything on my local (192.168.1.*) network. Does unRAID actually tell me what the VM's IP is? All I see is the Routing Table, for br0 it shows me Route 192.168.1.0/24, is that how it should be? (Note my router also uses this IP range). Here is a (clickable) screenshot: I have a feeling I might be missing something really obvious. Can you help? Thanks.
  20. I would love to take advantage of BTRFS snapshots to create incremental backups of some of my data. There are a bunch of tools/scripts out there to automate this somewhat (ie. take snapshots at regular intervals), but I was wondering whether there are any proven to work with unRAID? Since it is based on Slackware, installing custom packages from repositories isn't quite so easy. Has anyone managed to get this working successfully? Of course it would need to be done on a per-disk basis as each disk is a separate file system. Thanks for any information!
  21. Thanks guys, for your replies! I don't think I'm qualified to say whether bitrot really exists or not - this article on Ars Technica (including example pictures) certainly seems to think so... I have definitely seen that sort of corruption in my files in the past. Of course that doesn't mean "bitrot" caused it, maybe file system corruption caused by a sudden crash? Maybe it just depends on what you define as bitrot Question: if I use BTRFS on my volumes, will its checksums make plugins like Dynamix Fle Integrity obsolete?
  22. Even the latest version of unRAID still defaults to XFS for arrays. Why is this? Speed? Stability? BTRFS seems to only offer advantages (such as checksumming, although apparently bitrot can only be detected, not repaired). There are several examples in this forum of users using it successfully (such as this one). I am about to set up a new array, and would like to give BTRFS a go. Any disadvantages I should be aware of?