Richard Baguley

Does that support hard drives? I thought it was just for optical drives I agree that it is paranoid, but I've lost too much data by not realizing it wasn't copied over, or that it was in a separate partition for some reason.

So I have a pile of older hard drive I would like to create an archive of using Unraid. Any suggestions on the best way to approach this? The drives are mostly old Laptop drives, but the file systems vary, MacOS, NTFS and XFS. Ideally, I would like to create a complete image of each drive that I can then mount (as read-only) and access data from if required. I don't need the disk images to be bootable, but I would like them to be as accurate as possible and preserve the old file system, partition structure, etc. I am trying to avoid the old "I had that file on my desktop two laptops ago" scenario where data wasn't copied over correctly to a new device. Some also have old raw test data that I don't need right now, but might in the future. Any thoughts or suggestions on how to do this? Is there a drive archiving or forensics package I can run to do this automatically?

Hey all, I am setting up this docker on Unraid with a site that uses a cookie-based system to authenticate users, so you have to run a script that updates the cookie and associated IP address if the IP address changes. I’d like to set this to run on a regular basis, every two hours or so. I know that Arch doesn’t include a cron by default and timers aren’t enabled. So what is the recommended way to do this?

I am trying to use this docker with a VPN/tracker combo that requires you to run a short script that passes a cookie value to the tracker to identify you when the IP changes. Not gonna name the tracker, but the ID is called the MAM. The site has produced a rough outline of how to do this by storing the value in a cookie in a docker persistent volume, but this has kinda defeated my google-fu. Has anyone done anything similar? The guide outlines how to run a short script that looks like this: /path/docker/persists/tun_up.sh #!/bin/bash curl -c /path/docker/persists/mam.cookies -b /path/docker/persists/mam.cookies https://asite.com/dynamic.php Can anyone translate that into what I need to do with qBitTorrentVPN? I'm familiar with the shell, etc, but this Docker stuff with different file paths, persistant and non-persistant volumes is making my brain hurt.

Well part of the reason for getting this more expensive card is that it is going into a Lenovo Thinkstation system, so I wanted to maintain the single vendor if possible. I'll check with Lenovo on what support is offered for that. Does the Asus hyper m.2 card work with Unraid?

Morning all, I am looking to speed up access to my system by expanding the cache pool with a number of NVME drives. The easiest way to do this is with an NVME expansion card, like this: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/memory-and-storage/memory-and-storage-hard-drives/4xh0v09766? Has anyone used this, or has recommendations for something similar? I want to use a card like this for the cooling and all--in-one-place My current setup has one cache drive in a motherboard slot, one in a cheap PCIe to NVME adapter. That's a pain because the PCIe to NVMe one doesn't get much cooling so it tends to get a bit toasty. So, I was looking to get one of these multi-drive expansion cards, put in several SSDs and build a large cache attached to the main array. Any thoughts on that?

I know I can do that, but that doesn't vary the fan speed based on temperature. The only way to get decent ventilation to the hard drives is to run the fans at maxiumum, which is damn noisy. I really want more nuanced control that allows me to vary fan speed based on temperature, or to run the individual fans at different speeds.

Hey all, I have Unraid 6.12.4 running on my Lenovo P620 workstation, with the latest version of the Dynamix plugins installed. Specifically, I have version 2023.02.05a of the Dynamix System Autofan plugin. This doesn't detect the fans on the system, and I would like to see if there is a way to get it to control the fans. So, there are two options: - Is there a way to detect and control the system fans? SystemTemp detects multiple temperature sensors, but AutoFan does not find a fan controller. I can't find any installed fan controller drivers. Happy to send logs, etc if that is helpful to figure this out. - If the plugin can't detect whatever fan control is built into the motherboard, are any third party fan controllers supported by the AutoFan plugin? Products like the Corsair iCue Controller. I would be fine putting in a controller and rewiring the fans to run from that.

Hello all, I am running 6.12.4 on my Lenovo ThinkStation P620. However, there seems to be no way to control the fans, as the motherboard fan controller is not detected by UnRaid or the Dynamix Fan Control plugin. That means the only way to control the fans is to set them in the BIOS, and they sound like a goddam hurricane when they are turned up, which I do not like. It is in my basement, but the noise is just annoying. So, I was thinking of disabling the motherboard fan controller and adding a third party controller that can set the fans dependent on system temperature, etc. I don't mind the fans running when needed, but I don't want the noise when the system is idle. Are there any third party fan controllers that are detected and compatible with Dynamic Fan control? Considering something like this: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/custom-liquid-cooling/cl-9011110-ww/icue-commander-pro-smart-rgb-lighting-and-fan-speed-controller-cl-9011110-ww, but without the blinky lights.

Hello all, I have Unraid 6.1.23 running on my system, a Lenovo P630 Workstation/Server. It is working fine, but I can't seem to get any control over the system fans. I am having some trouble with the HDs getting warm and would like to have more nuanced control over that. At the moment, the only way to control them is to reboot, go into the BIOS and set the fan level there: hardly the easiest thing to do, and I want it to set the fan level based on temperature, not having then running at max all the time. I have tried Dynamix System Autofan, which doesn't detect any controllers. Lenovo are, as usual, less than helpful on this, saying that Unraid is not supported so they won't help. . Any thoughts?

It is the latter, so I could do it through a proxy by just logging in every now and then. However, I have noticed that the VPN exit address seems to change quite often, so I would need to do it a lot, or set up a cron job or something similar to log in over the proxy. I think the python script would be simpler if I can get it working in the docker.

Hey all, I have an interesting situation here that I am not sure how to address. One of the Torrent sites I use requires a persistent IP address: the address you log in from should be the same as the IP address you are sharing from. At the moment, I use qbittorrent on a VM with a VPN that offers a static IP, but I want to switch this to Binhex-qbittorrentvpn. However, the VPN I use doesn't support their static IP service outside of their own software. There is a way to get around this, but it requires running a Python script that uses a persistent cookie to simulate the login on a regular basis. So, if the VPN IP changes, the persistent cookie looks like you have logged in from the new IP address. Is it possible to run this within the Binhex-qbittorrentvpn docker without borking the whole thing? UPDATE: did some more poking around and Python does seem to be installed on the docker, and I can get the script to run.

thanks, I have been experimenting with 9p, but it seems to have some issues with permissions. I'll probably just use CIFS which seems less finnicky.

Hey all, building a new Unraid server here. I have an SMB share called Media that I want to access from an Ubuntu (22.10) VM. What is the best way to do it? Should I use 9p or VirtioFS? I see conflicting reports about both: 9p has issues with user permissions, but VirtioFS isn't stable? Thoughts? The share should have no access restrictions: everything on it has full permissions, and I want the VM to be able to write to the share.

Hey, thanks for the tip. I did fix this with the mover, but I also had to disable docker and VMs before the mover would start, otherwise I got an error about cache not enabled. Still not sure how the stuff got onto the cache, but it has at least been moved now.