Hoopster

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  1. 10 minutes ago, Niklas said:

    it looks like Unleashed gives access to more features compared to legacy Pro?

    All licenses provide all Unraid features.  The only difference is the number of storage devices that can be attached to the server when the array is started.

     

    There is no difference between the Unleashed license and the Pro license other than the fact that Unleashed now has an annual update/maintenance fee.  The Lifetime license is just Unleashed with lifetime updates/maintenance.

  2. 2 minutes ago, xokia said:

    For unraid with the new pricing structure folks are going to expect features

    I believe this is one of the stated reasons for the pricing change.  They need more reliable and steady income to hire more developers to provide new features quicker than they can now.  I may not be remembering that correctly, but, for some reason that sticks in my mind as a reason for the pricing changes.

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  3. 5 hours ago, IonelChila said:

    I'm willing to bet that the older license holders will eventually be required to switch to subscriptions for additional features.

    This is not without precedent.  When fiber optic Internet came to my neighborhood 20+ years ago, we were all promised free installation ($2700 actual cost) and speed increases as they became available with just a monthly ISP payment. I was among the first to sign up.

     

    For 15 years they kept their promise.  About 7 years ago we "legacy" users were told that our speed would be capped at 100 Mbps.  If we wanted more, we had to renounce our legacy status and pay $30 a month to the fiber optic provider (a consortium formed by 15 cities) + the ISP fee or pay $2700 for the "installation" and skip the $30 a month fee.

     

    I have no crystal ball and have no idea what will happen in the future with legacy Unraid licences, but, given their transparancy up to this point, I don't think they will start penalizing legacy users unless they pay up.

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  4. 56 minutes ago, ddube said:

    Like I said before. LT is unable to provide a roadmap. Why ?

    I think it is just due to the nature of Unraid development and philosophy.  Limetech historically has taken a very long time to develop and test new releases (even minor ones).  There are a lot of variables in a product such as Unraid which tries to run on as many hardware platforms as possible.  They also thoroughly test to make sure no data loss will result from a new version of the software.  It all takes time.

     

    The product also seems to be driven a lot by user requests/needs and priorities can change.  I think they would rather just "go with the flow" than publish roadmaps that may change a lot.  I do not speak for Limetech.

     

    If they did provide roadmaps, we would all likely be complaining about versions/features not making published deadlines.  I was a software product manager for 25 years and was in charge of many roadmaps.  We rarely ever made the published timelines due to unforeseen engineering roadblocks and trying to control "feature creep."  It got to the point that I really has to pad the timelines and then customers complained about excessively-long development cycles.  Roadmaps are doubly difficult for small companies with limited resources.

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  5. 38 minutes ago, blue8lucian said:

    Hello. I have my own domain; can i host my email server on my UNRAID? I want to have my domain on my server and my email server. How should I proceed? 

    Look in Apps in the GUI and see if any of the mail server options offered there meets your needs.

  6. 9 hours ago, xokia said:

    Slice it any way you want its a subscription.

    Agree to disagree on this point.  Call it what you want but it is not a subscription. 

     

    For five years I managed a product line for a software company that had a true subscription pricing model.  The customers paid monthly.  As soon as they stopped paying, the software and service it provided stopped working and was terminated.  This is not what Limetech is doing.  But, hey, if you want to believe it is a subscription, that is your right.

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  7. 45 minutes ago, xokia said:

    I however would have purchased none of the licenses if it required an annual fee. I am allergic to subscription based models.

    I likely would have felt the same way at first glance if the new pricing was the pricing in 2011 when I bought my first Unraid license. I have faithfully avoided and abandoned all software that has gone to a subscription model over the years; however, what Limetech is moving to is not subscription pricing, it is an annual maintenance fee.  If you don't pay the fee, your software still works, your data is still intact, etc. Subscriptions do not work this way.  You don't pay and your software quits working.

     

    After looking at other options, I very probably would have come back to Unraid for my NAS if the new pricing had always been the way it is moving to and "gambled" yearly on whether or not to pay the fee while I saw where Unraid was headed.  It is still a great bargain for what it provides.  I have followed this pattern with software that offers a perpetual license for a particular version but comes out every year with a "new and improved" version for which I have to pay an upgrade fee.  I will often skip a couple of years and run older software until something new comes along that compels me to upgrade. 

     

    It will be interesting to see how this plays out for Limetech but I understand and support what they have done with pricing.  I am just grateful now to be grandfathered in with my three perpetual licenses. After March 27, that option will not exist for new users.

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  8. 1 hour ago, Dinglestains said:

    Is this where I come for support with Plex in unRaid? I don't think I installed the binhex version but I didn't see a support thread for the official Plex docker. I don't know the difference in the binhex version and the official version.

    The official Plex docker is supported in Plex forums, not here.  Binhex and Linuxserver versions of Plex docker are supported in these forums.  They are all just different packaging of the same code with the same functionality; not a lot of differences really.

     

    You may still find some help here if someone is able to point you in the right direction or you may be referred to the Plex support forums.

  9. 3 minutes ago, CowboyPilot said:

    Edit: Nm, I am confusing two things.  Keep the GUID with the appropriate key and should be g2g I imagine.

    Yes, you are fine.  The license key is associated with the GUID of the flash drive to which it was registered. Since your new Pro key is registered with the new flash drive GUID, there are no issues in transferring over the config folder from the "backup" flash drive to the new one.

  10. 53 minutes ago, CowboyPilot said:

    is there an easy way to move my whole config over to the new license/bootusb

    The config folder on the current USB flash drive contains all the information you need to retain your current configuration.  Of course, you don't need the Plus.key file as that is your reserve plus key and the new Pro.key file will be on the new USB drive.  Copy the entire config folder (minus the Plus.key) to your new Pro license USB flash drive.

  11. 12 hours ago, JonathanM said:

    The only issue I can think of is if you need to read it on a windows system for some reason,

    Yeah, that was the biggest reason I set it up as an unassigned device.  I formatted it as NTFS so I could just pull it out of the server and read it natively in Windows, if needed.

     

    I have a similar setup on my other two Unraid servers and the UD syslog is working fine so there is something specific that changed on the affected server.  <custom> no longer shows as the syslog location on any of the three servers, but, two are working as expected and one is not.

  12. On 4/27/2020 at 6:11 AM, bonienl said:

    Though, I don't recommend to write logs to unassigned devices, it is possible to do.

    Is this still possible? 

     

    I have an unassigned flash disk called SYSLOG to which syslog was writing to a <custom> location. 

    • I changed the server_folder line in /boot/config/rsyslog.cfg to point to the UD location:  server_folder="/mnt/disks/SYSLOG/"
    • In rsyslog.conf, changed the $template remote variable to point to the UD location: $template remote,"/mnt/disks/SYSLOG//syslog-%FROMHOST-IP%.log"

    This quit working for me a couple days ago and reverted to an Unraid share.  Making the above changes and restarting the syslog server just changes the above line back to reference the share.  It appears <custom> no longer works.

     

    Has something changed?  Perhaps it is related to a recent change in the Unassigned Devices plugin as that has been updated several times the past couple of weeks.

     

  13. Seems fair to me.  I likely will  never have a need to change my current two pro and one plus licenses, but, at least I know what the path is should I choose to go that way.

     

    Legacy users are protected and security updates within minor release will be available even to those with lapsed support.  I think this addresses most concerns and everyone has enough information to decide where they go with Unraid.

     

    Change is often difficult, but, I feel this has been handled well and with more transparency than is often the case in these situations.

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  14. 7 hours ago, hamish_18 said:

    I'd REALLY like to get notifications from my server again.

    Interesting that GMail with the app password is no longer working for you.  I continue to get Unraid notifications using a GMail account and app password.  I have not changed anything at all since GMail started requiring the app password and nothing appears to have "expired."

     

    All I am saying is that your issue, whatever it is, does not appear to be a universal problem with GMail app passwords.  I realize this does not help you solve the problem.

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  15. 9 minutes ago, jeffreywhunter said:

    I've not been able to find any detailed instructions.

    From the more information link in the Flash Backup section of Unraid Connect:

     

    Restoring a Flash Backup

    1. Log in to Unraid Connect.
    2. Select Details.
    3. Click Generate flash backup from the Flash backup tile.
    4. This will combine your OS configuration data with the OS release version you were running and put them both into a zip file that can be used with our flash creator tool to restore the backup to a new flash device.
    5. After the backup has been generated, you can click Download flash backup to obtain it.
    6. Use the Unraid USB Flash Creator to restore your backup to a new flash drive.

    Additional Steps Required

     

    Once you boot the OS, there are only a few things you will need to reconfigure:

    1. On the Settings > Management Access > Unraid.net page, click to activate your flash backup again.
    2. On the Users page, for each user (including root), you will need to reset your passwords.
    3. On the Settings > VPN Manager page, for each tunnel and peer select the key icon. Click "Generate Keypair" and "Generate Key", start each tunnel, then download the new client configuration to each associated client device.
    4. If your server does not have Internet access when you reboot then you will need to go to Apps > Previous Apps and reinstall your plugins once you have Internet access. The configuration files will be on your system ready to use once the application files have been installed.
  16. 28 minutes ago, aqua said:

    I noticed today that I have two containers that disappeared from my docker tab.

    They probably have blank variables, which, up until version 6.12.8 of Unraid, was not a problem.  This happened to me as well.  A docker container disappeared and could not be added again even through Previous Apps.

     

    You likely need to install the Docker Patch 6.12.8 plugin which will fix this and let docker containers with blank variables be installed.  You can then decide if you need to fill in these variables.  This, of course, assumes you are running version 6.12.8 of Unraid.

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  17. 16 minutes ago, MrPerezOP said:

    We're looking into switching internet providers from cable to 5G home internet

    I don't know what 5G service you are planning to use in your home, but, the T-Mobile 5G gateway, for example, has an Ethernet port to which a switch or router can be connected.  A lot of third-party routers have 4-port switches built in.  In either case, it should be possible to connect your Unraid server to an Ethernet port if you go with a 5G Internet service that has a gateway with an Ethernet port.

     

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  18. 4 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

    If you wondering why the pricing hasn't be announced, consider that fact that the announcement of the new plan was forced on LimeTech

    I think this is an important point in all this discussion.  Limetech did not have all the details of the new pricing and license structure set in stone before they felt the need to announce early because of all the hand wringing sparked by a Reddit thread.  Some of the details, as indicated by Tom, are still being discussed.

     

    4 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

    So think about how you might use this to your advantage.

    Not knowing what new license and upgrade pricing will look like, I opted to go with the "sure thing" on one of  my Plus licenses and upgraded it to Pro at current pricing.  I still have one Plus license left (and two Pro), which I will likely never need to upgrade as it is a small special-purpose server currently using only 5 of the 12 devices the license allows.

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  19. 1 hour ago, etegration said:

    2024 - time to let us decide how we want to boot off a ssd or even NVME and run the OS from ram please. thumbdrives are totally useless and so unreliable. 

    Tom hinted in the Uncast video interview that the USB flash drive licensing scheme "might be expanded in the future."  What that means is as of yet unclear.

     

    I have been using the same USB flash drive on one of my servers for over 10 years so I would not call that unreliable.  Having the license and configuration tied to an easily portable USB drive has made it possible to change hardware (MB, CPU, RAM, etc.) on my servers 5+ times using the same license and configuration with the same array/pool drives. 

     

    For me (and this is my opinion only), I like the USB flash drive as the repository for the license, configuration and OS file which load into RAM.  Having those on an SSD/NVMe drive makes that far less portable or more to deal with when making hardware changes.

  20. 2 hours ago, jtech007 said:

     

    A follow up to my original post. I have used this HP drive for almost a year now with zero issues. I rebooted about 5 days ago to fix a drive issue with no hang ups. Hopefully it will last as long as the last HP one I had before. The still sell them at Office Depot for under $10.00

    They are good USB drives.  I have been using one for almost a year now on the recommendation of @jtech007

     

    It worked when a lot of USB drives (even name brand ones) I had on hand would not work with Unraid.

     

    It has been through weekly server reboots as it is used on my backup server which automatically backs up my main server once a week and then is automatically powered off until the next backup.