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thanks for the advice, I will look at the Dynamix File Manager. regarding the point about a Parity Disk. I do have one, and I understand that I can remove a HD from the raid and then replace it with a new HD and it will rebuild, but I just had a big system failure resulting in me losing a HD, and the rebuild didn't restore all my data so I have go and do a data recovery on it. so I am looking at over options.

this is a quick question, as I haven't found an answer to this. is it possible to move all the data within Unraid from a 4TB hard drive to a 10TB hard drive. as I am planning on doing the following - replace 2 x 4TB hard drivers with a 10TB hard drive to free up space within my server and to give me 2TB extra storage so my steps would be to: connect the 10TB to the unraid and then somehow (move) all the data from the first 4TB to the 10TB then move the data from the second 4TB to the 10TB. once done I would then remove the 2 X 4TB hard drivers from the raid.

@bmartino1 would u mind have a quick read of above and if possible point out why I am having issues with the spinning up function within Unraid

quick backup info. I just upgraded from a SATA expansion card to a LSI HBA card using the following setup. installed the Fujitsu 9300-8I SAS 12G SATA 6G PCI-e Controller HBA IT mode nano /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet amd_iommu=on iommu=pt pcie_acs_override=downstream,multifunction" nano /etc/modules vfio vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd then I added the card to unraid and I also change the Machine from I440FX to Q35 here is the proxmox settings and once I had the hard drivers plug, I fired up my unraid and assigned the drivers to the right location. so far so good so here is the problem, I have set my Hard Discs to spin down after 15 mins of none use, but when I try and access a share folder, I have discovered that the discs are not spinning up, and when log onto unraid and manual try and spin up the discs, then nothing happens, and when I try and access the share via windows explorer my windows hangs and then resets the windows environment. what have I missing ? tower-diagnostics-20240611-1414.zip syslog-192.168.1.9.log

@JorgeB thanks for the advice, I have rebooted my system into safe mode, and I now have the words "running in safe mode " in red at the bottom. I am now going to leave it and see that happens. I don't user VM's in unraid as this is why I moved over to proxmox, and the only dockers I have running is glances which I use for monitoring.

can someone please have this look at this syslog, as my system just chashed. at the time, I was in the middle of backing up my data to a external NAS. I have just purchase a HBA card to replace my SATA expansion card, if this is the issue. - I look forward to your reply. syslog-192.168.1.9 (1).log

many thanks for your help and advice in navigating me in purchasing the right item for my needs. , I have now gone and purchase the Fujitsu HBA card, looking at it, it comes with the breakout cables and is all ready in IT mode, but this will be something I will check when I put it into my server. fingers cross that it will be this easy to install it 🙂

gosh - many thanks @bmartino1 I wasn't expecting all that information and you have given me something to think about - for future expending my data storage, but as have a 9 disc storage bay at the moment and all I am looking at as removing the SATA expansion card and replace it with a HBA then I think I will be looking at something like the 9300-8I 12Gbps. regarding the cost - over here in the UK - I will be looking at £100 from amazon, but I will shop around and see if I can get it cheaper before I go and purchase this. question - so are you saying that the Fujitsu 9300-8I is a good board ? as the link above is giving me the cheap's price for the UK I also agree with yourself that buying from Ebay is a hit or miss and normally this is my last result.

@bmartino1 one last question, I have been looking at different HBA, with will be able to have 8 devices, would you say that if I got for a 12gb card to future proof myself like the LSI 9300 or 9302-8i cards or at this time stick with a 6gbs transfer card like 9211-8I - and also do you think purchase the card on EBAY is a good ideal ? or go to a retailer like Amazon ?

@bmartino1 I have been dong some reading and I think I have a basic understand of the HBA and how to set it up on my promox and then pass it through to unraid, the only thing I can't find any information about - will Ioss my data on my hard discs when I replace my PCI Sata with a HBA card ? and then pass the card through and not using qm set 103 -scsi1 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_*******-*****-**-********

@itimpi thanks for the info. I have looked and I don't like the ideal of mirroring the data, as it might wear out my USB drive, but I am looking at exporting the logs to a syslog server. on this point is there any recommended syslog servers that you would suggest ?

@JorgeB many thanks for having a look, I am guesting that the Diags had no usefully information, I have done as advise and posted what I have done. all I can do now is wait and see for when it next crash

would someone please have a look at the logs and inform me why my system crashed. I think it might have been on of my HD's - which might be on it's way. as they are approx. 4 years old. many thanks tower-diagnostics-20240522-1624.zip

@bmartino1 as above I am all ready using VM's within proxmox as I had a lot of issues with running VM's within unraid and I also have moved out some out functions and place them within a docker. I also like unraid, as I can mix and match my discs and also for the simple way you can click on a docker, and it will install it for you. if I was able to have a stable environment with unraid ( in relation to VM's and dockers ) and I wouldn't have proxmox. going back a few steps I think I will be looking at a HBA or a "hate to say" a Linux VM running as my Raid server, but in doing this then I will loss the function of mixing and matching disc's.

@bmartino1 this I understand I just read through the procedure you posted and I can see I have a lot of reading to do, before I go ahead and do this, as, I must confess - a lot of it is over my head. and I need to understand it before I do anything.

thanks for the above links I will sit down and go through them today

@bmartino1 thanks for the information , as this will be something I will be doing as I don't want to loss anymore data - from a disc fault. again to make sure I understand the above once I have purchase and installed the HBA Card, I will then need to run the following commands to get the HBA card information and then modify the Vfio.conf file. here I am not sure what you are saying and lastly looking at the linked webpage for about " modprobe " gosh I am so confused. or should I just be looking at this would this effect proxmox version 8 ? ps. I have looked around - to anyone is it easy to set up the SAS controller within my motherboard BIOS ? if so is there a video or a step procedure as this would be something very new to me, and i don't want to loss any more data

@bmartino1 ok as I want to keep my unraid in a VM due to having issues with dockers and VM's within unraid, ( Home Assistant for a example ) I reading the above statement that if I replace my SATA expansion card with a HBA card ( example = HP H221 HBA Controller card ) and then pass the discs into unraid from proxmox then the only the discs will be seen by promox will be when I fire up the unraid VM ? example card: LSI 9207-8I Raid Controller Card 6gbs SAS for my B450 Tomhawk

I have re-ran it without the -n Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps... - found root inode chunk Phase 3 - for each AG... - scan and clear agi unlinked lists... - process known inodes and perform inode discovery... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 - process newly discovered inodes... Phase 4 - check for duplicate blocks... - setting up duplicate extent list... - check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 Phase 5 - rebuild AG headers and trees... - reset superblock... Phase 6 - check inode connectivity... - resetting contents of realtime bitmap and summary inodes - traversing filesystem ... - traversal finished ... - moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ... Phase 7 - verify and correct link counts... done does this look good ?

thanks for the info on Disk 1 - I I just ran the check with a -n and here is the results. does this look ok ? , if not then what is the best steps to resolve it ? Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps... ir_freecount/free mismatch, inode chunk 1/65902336, freecount 28 nfree 27 finobt ir_freecount/free mismatch, inode chunk 1/65902336, freecount 28 nfree 27 - found root inode chunk Phase 3 - for each AG... - scan (but don't clear) agi unlinked lists... - process known inodes and perform inode discovery... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 inode identifier 2306195160 mismatch on inode 2314583768 inode identifier 2306195160 mismatch on inode 2314583768 would have cleared inode 2314583768 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 - process newly discovered inodes... Phase 4 - check for duplicate blocks... - setting up duplicate extent list... - check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks... - agno = 0 - agno = 3 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 inode identifier 2306195160 mismatch on inode 2314583768 would have cleared inode 2314583768 No modify flag set, skipping phase 5 Phase 6 - check inode connectivity... - traversing filesystem ... - traversal finished ... - moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ... Phase 7 - verify link counts... No modify flag set, skipping filesystem flush and exiting. regarding the disk I replace it was disk 4

I understand that a VM Unraid is not support, my question was more about the function of the unraid of the discs themselves as request I have attached my diagnostics log file, please note that the issue happened a week ago and I am now restoring my data from the recovered data tower-diagnostics-20240514-1511.zip

Good morning, this is a question in the hope that you can put my mind at rest. background information = I have 5 disks within a unraid environment with one of the drivers as a parity with a total storage of 22TB I have my unraid within a VM on a proxmox server, and I have pasted through my HD's via the following command qm set 103 -scsi1 /dev/disk/by-id/***-WDC_************ and I have all my shares' using all the HD's within my unraid. but a few days ago was I was watching plex, I experience the following, where one of my hard drivers failed, Resulting in unraid hanging and not allowing me access. after a bit of investigating I located the HD and remove it from the VM config, then fired up the VM with no issues and reported that a hard disc was missing, but would still run and create a virtual HD. so far no problems, but here is the issue. upon doing a data restore ( using Stellar Data recovery ) I discovery that I had loss quite a few films, TV shows and a lot of my personal photos. as I understand it, that all the data in my raided is stored on the parity so that I can afford to loss one HD, and all my data is safe, but from this experience it looks like, any data that is stored on the failed HD is loss

any ideals ?

Sorry. please find attached my Diag log files tower-diagnostics-20240303-1323.zip

I am trying to update my Unraid to the lastest version but I am getting the following error, everytime I click on the "update OS" is there a away to resolve this ? plugin: updating: unRAIDServer.plg plugin: downloading: unRAIDServer-6.12.8-x86_64.zip ... done plugin: downloading: unRAIDServer-6.12.8-x86_64.md5 ... done writing flash device - please wait... Archive: /tmp/unRAIDServer.zip inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzfirmware inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzfirmware.sha256 inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzimage inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzimage.sha256 inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzmodules inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzmodules.sha256 inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzroot extracting: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzroot-gui inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzroot-gui.sha256 inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/bzroot.sha256 inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/changes.txt inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/license.txt inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/make_bootable.bat inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/make_bootable_linux inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/make_bootable_mac inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/memtest inflating: /boot/unRAIDServer/syslinux/syslinux.cfg- plugin: run failed: '/bin/bash' returned 9 Executing hook script: post_plugin_checks