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hmm. i have no monitor with which to view the BIOS

i don't know how to restart, i guess. i've had my server maybe 8 years, i think. gone through issues throughout, initially had high hopes but generally just run a limited stack of qbt and plex, with some arrs (configured incorrectly) and kometa. never got anything else functioning properly. alas. i went travelling and so i deconstructed the server as i thought that would be best for packing it up to stay at my parents' house. so it sat idle for around 6 months. i built it again and couldn't really remember how to get it up n running, so i took it to a shop i used in the past where one of the guys knows unraid. they said they couldn't get it fully operational and the parity drive is broken. that is frustrating because it's obviously the biggest drive, and newest. i asked them if they had heard of the 3.3V pin issue which i had used tape on some of the drives, but they just blanked that and said "nothing we can do". i've received it back today, and when i checked the parity drive connection, the power cable seemed okay but the SATA connect looked like it had melted, but i think the plastic has broken off into the SATA wire and is stuck. so there are loose pins coming out of the drive. i do not think it was like that when i gave them it, and suspect that's why they gave me a hefty discount, but i can't prove it so i think it's pointless trying to argue that. i've just removed it. however, i've turned on, connected on wifi, and 4 other disks are missing too. only 3 are working! is it really a case of turning it off and looking at the connections and on again and off again and on again in this instance? or is that likely to cause more damage to the disks? it's going to be costly but i don't know literally where to go from here or what to do. i was never well-versed in any of this and just got by, but since i've been away i just don't really remember what to do. thanks.

A little worried... Woke up today and my server was unresponsive. Possibly overheated in this british heatwave. I restarted the server and all seemed well. I started my *arrs and grabbed a couple torrents I'd missed yesterday/today. So I started Qbittorrent and opened the WebUI, but when it loaded, every single torrent is now at 0.0% and "downloading metadata" which I've never seen before. They were doing this all at once as I don't use queuing. The vast majority have been renamed to their hash, it seems, so I can't tell from a glance what they are. I restarted the container to no avail. I noticed that a handful were "downloading" not just "downloading metadata", so I implemented the queue. A load are Checking and it's probably going to overheat the server... Is this just a waiting game while the system resets or something? Or should I shut qbt down or something? Thanks

in the process of trying to migrate to a better-organised system from a manually managed system that I've had for years, I've got a new instance of radarr and I want the download location set in radarr when adding to be replicated as the default location in qbt. i used to have a manually-set destination as it was the most-used, but i had to manually change for thousands of movies. it wasn't so much of an issue, but i did always lament having to do it, so i want it to be automatic. however, now i removed anything in the "default download location" field in settings, but it resorts to "/config/Downloads" and I don't quite know why - can anyone tell me? a quick 10 second fix, i'm sure.

i am not good with these things, so please forgive me, but I just wanted to protect my server behind a VPN, and I read that gluetun was "easy". (I wish people would stop using words like that for anything techy...). I have Mullvad, and am using wireguard where possible. (I tried installing the vpn with the wireguard settings in Unraid Settings, and that didn't seem to work, though I'd probably prefer to do that). So I installed this app on unraid on the thought that I could route qbittorrent, deluge and rutorrent through it. However, reading replies in this thread, does have I misunderstood what gluetun does? Someone above suggests that the entire internet traffic for a router will now go through it? I don't think I want all internet traffic to go through the server. I just wanted the torrent clients (and *arrs, I guess) to be routed through a VPN. Either way, whatever information and keys and addresses I'm getting from mullvad, it seems i'm inputting incorrectly, and tutorials and guides seem outdated for the amount of fields that need filling now in 2024. (it seems older versions needed less information). Can someone guide me through how to protect my server? Thanks

Yes that;s what I used for the reinstall.

apparently my ISP does not use CGNAT. I have changed IPs multiple times, changed network name and password, and so far there is no activity on that site for my new IP address which is good. I want to use software to monitor my network going forward but I'm untrusting of what I'm downloading now as it's made me question everything I've done recently. My malwarebytes was detecting and quarantining filezilla update files, so I uninstalled and redownloaded it, even though I initially used the legitimate website. I've looked at nmap to monitor the network but unsure whether to trust it. I also wanted to implement things mentioned in this article https://www.techtarget.com/searchsecurity/definition/IP-spoofing but I'm not versed in these things and terminology so just feel out of my depth. I also want to install a new VPN, but I don't find installation guidance very helpful for that on unraid. People mention that "unraid has wireguard built in" but that doesn't mean much to me. I read about using a gluetun docker and "sending torrent clients through it" which sounds more promising... Ultimately, I checked my tower before powering it down and couldn't find any evidence that anything malicious had been downloaded to my devices, but I still feel paranoid to power it back up, even just to check. I want to get things in place before starting it up. Thanks.

Thanks for replying. AFAIK i haven't touched the router other than to reset the IP address. Under Security, there are Firewall rules that are saying to BLOCK inbound traffic and to ALLOW outbound services, under IPV6 Firewall. Last night I randomly looked in my Spam folder in my email and saw a phishing email threatening action against CP among other things, and presumably a link to "pay the police" else legal action would be taken. This was obviously spam so I forwarded it to 2 gov reporting emails and googled it to see actionfraud.gov.uk had a page about it, too. The date it was sent was the day after the last update to the iknowwhatyoudownload list, which may be coincidence, may not be. Maybe my turning my tower off is just a coincidence in timing. I also googled haveibeenpwned, to see that a website i purchased from maybe a year ago had been hacked and a list of customer details leaked, including emails and physical addresses. Doesn't say IP address though.

Hi, hoping for some serious non-judgmental advice here. I've posted to these forums in particular as I'm unsure where else to go, and it may become clearer the more you read. I'm not great with internet communication protocol/terminology though I try to keep up, but now I need help from some experts. I'll try to write a sort of timeline and detail why I'm concerned, I'm sorry if it becomes uncoordinated or rambling. A very long time ago, when I first began torrenting on private trackers, I checked the site iknowwhatyoudownload.com to double check if the activity really was private, and for a long time, that list remained blank. Some months ago, I loaded the website again for the first time in years and there was a list of torrents that I had not downloaded, including porn. I thought it was strange, and googled why that may happen. Some users said the website isn't to be trusted, and others advised extreme caution. About 2 weeks ago, I checked again, and not only was there TV/Movies that I hadn't downloaded, but porn again as well, but, terrifyingly, CP (or CSAM as it's known now). I became immediately concerned that my network had been hacked, and searched my devices for any of these files listed, but nothing showed. There were downloads every day or two, with one instance of the CP in the list. I unplugged my router overnight to change the IP address and waited to see if all traffic ceased. For 2 days there was nothing listed, but then 1 porn and 1 CSAM file were listed. I changed IP address again and turned off my unraid tower. That was 5 days ago, and unraid has been off since, and there has been no update to the list. I am concerned that when my tower connects to the internet, it is hijacked somehow for someone else's use. That is where I am. I'm sure you can understand why I am extremely concerned about this and so, please, could anyone advise me on: my next steps; action to take; advice on believing that website; understanding what may have happened; how to get my tower back. My thoughts: this could have been going on for months and maybe the website isn't correct and police aren't interested i used a public tracker once and maybe the ip address was stolen to be used by someone for nefarious means, but not sure how this then crossed to the new ip address is my unraid is connected to someone's pc somewhere? i don't know how to monitor such traffic on my network could simply changing ports on qbt/deluge rectify this with no updates since the tower was turned off, i believe the issue is with my unraid tower rather than my network, but how can i be sure? Thank you.

but it could be, right? with a program or plugin? because like i said, i don't know what those commands mean, so CLI could be risky.

This may seem like a few very basic questions, but I've just sat and gone through Unraid Docs, these forums and google but I can't see anyone asking them. Background: my laptop is currently dying so I've backed stuff up to my tower, and was reading about how to dispose of a laptop where everyone is suggesting wiping then physically destroying hard drives, so while I'm in the process of that, I'm also thinking about the unraid tower: I delete things from various places (krusader (docker), filezilla (windows app not docker), qbittorrent, and recently using a Dynamix (i think) plug in which allows deletion from the unraid GUI). Are these being deleted in the same way, though? Krusader has a trash and a delete, but everything else is just delete. How do I know if they're actually being wiped or just moved? I recently deleted several TBs of data and I actually now want to ensure that it is securely erased. I have Eraser for my laptop which can do numerous passes to wipe in accordance with various protocols, but I can't see something similar for Unraid. I've seen mention of DBAN or scrub via CLI but i'd rather use an interface, too. Is a better option to use unbalance to empty a drive, preclear it, then repeat for all disks? Or is there another way to securely erase empty space? I don't want to erase entire disks, just ensure that what has been deleted is definitively gone. Thanks

Thanks for replying, the IP for the NAS had not changed, and I can now access the GUI. I thought I had deleted this post as it seemed to work when I stopped using the VPN.

Hi, I'm assuming this is the best place to post, I'm not great with this kind of stuff, and I thought I had installed a VPN on my desktop to be on all the time. As it happens, it wasn't connected. So I wanted to do what I could and redo kind of "home security" by resetting my router's IP address, flushing DNS and reconfiguring the VPN app (PIA). I also installed the PIA browser extension and I wonder if this is where the issue came from, so I uninstalled it. I now can't access the WebUI with the normal LAN IP address method on any browser. I can FTP in and use File Explorer, and I can even open plex via the <ipaddress>:port way, so it's connected, I scanned IP addresses on the network and it hasn't changed. I think it keeps forcing https but I always assumed it was https not http. I turned the VPN off completely and no improvement so it must be something I've done. I tried using my Tailscale app from my phone but that doesn't seem to do it like it did before, and neither can I connect from my phone anyway. I'm expecting to get laughed at for my attempts but I'm just going off google recommendations and trying to implement them, I have no prior knowledge of this subject so please give advice Thanks

just installed - inputted youtube url - doesn't work

just to follow up, i did the latter and am currently rebuilding my libraries. thanks to PMM it speeds it up, but still. gives an opportunity for restructure too, i guess. a shame that the statistics on tautulli have been decimated too, but oh well. i guess it's related, but the issue i was having with Plex not being able to add items to the play queue, and therefore unable to play, seems to have stopped, so that must have been an issue with that library, which then potentially corrupted the whole database