Arbadacarba

I installed Unraid on an older machine and would love to install it in a second location for backup of the most important files and to run a Home Assistant instance for a small farm business. In fact we have fiber (YAY!) being installed this summer so both my lab and the remote system will be on a gigabit connection. I thought it would be cool if I could link two instances of pfSense together and essentially treat them as one network... My inlaws at the other site could access my media server directly and I would not have to manage a second plex instance at their place. So I tried installing pfSense on a VM on the second machine, only to discover, the machine can't pass the network cards through to the machine... But my question is, If I unbond the network cards can I set the pfSence VM, and ONLY the pfSense to have access to the eth1 card? So the rest of the network is not exposed to the raw internet? I'm afraid I don't have all the right words for this.

I'm a medical systems admin... I work very hard not to bring work home with me, but I'm the guy that gets handed things that are truly f'd up. There's not supposed to be anything on the machines I get handed... But there is ALWAYS something somewhere. I have a system that backs up the drive onto a Backup Share that is part of my array so that it is protected by parity, where I can then clone them and or boot a VM directly from the image... And I delete them when they are no longer relevant. I do want to keep the share on the array if I can. I also do data recovery and of Ransomware'd systems and occasionally I do Negotiation for recovery... The images I have of those drives are moot if I'm gone and I don't want them there for someone to accidently fire them up in the wrong environment. Kill event: Either Delete the contents of the share or maybe encrypt the contents of the share... I am leaning toward delete because then the system would get the space back. But if it could Encrypt the data then I could get it back if I wanted it... And if I wanted to get really fancy it could be encrypted after a month and Deleted after two months. Trigger: Ideally it would be very passive... with a fairly long delay... Say a month or even two would be fine. (if I'm out of commission for more than a month chances are the stuff is no longer relevant anyway) I guess I could do it with a simple daily script that checks the trigger and then runs based on the age of the trigger... I just don't know what to use for the trigger? Would it make sense to find a file that is changed by the Admin Login on the gui? I am logged into the gui constantly... But I guess I don't log in every day... IT's usually just already there. Arbadacarba

I understand your implication, but I don't understand the "Make stuff nice for your family" bit. Can no-one else see a legitimate reason to have such a system in place?

OK, Thanks for the reply

This is working great. I do have a detail to look at... The option shows up for machines whether they need it or not... My Windows VMs have it, but so does my pfsense box and my Home Assistant server. Is there a way to selectively turn it on/off The WebUI only shows up if there is an address in the field. Thanks Arbadacarba

Has anyone considered a way to create a dead man switch for shares in unraid? I have a share that is relevant to my work, but if I were to vanish, it should be deleted but my wife, who I presume would be in posession of my homelab, would not know how. Has anyone come up with a tool, or script to accomplish this? I don't need my drives encrypted because everyone needs access to the shares so long as I'm here, and most of the shares in the event that I'm not... Just not the one share. Security is using best practices and is fine... My only concern is after my death. If I lose the files before that I would be greatly inconvenienced but I would be able to recover them from backups that are with other users. Ideally the reset would be something I do regularly, like log into the UI using my account? I've tried searching and failed to come up with anything. Thanks as always, This community is awesome Arbadacarba

Awsone, thank you

Hadn't spotted that. Thank You

I work with a medical records vendor where they use citrix, and the citrix launch file downloads when they click on the application icon the web browser downloads the ica file. Right clicking on the download you have the option to "always open files of this type". And then, the file launches when you click on the link in the web page (storefront) So I wonder if I could host the .rdp file somewhere so that it gets downloaded by the browser and if it's set to open it would launch the rdp session.

Awsome... Any way to make it open in a new tab within the launching browser? I wonder for the VM's that need to be viewed from RDP, if I can point it at a hosted file to download an RDP file and set that file to "always open" in my browser...

OK, Thank makes more sense.. I misunderstood part of your last post... Does this machine have two network ports? the dhcplog shows the card disconnecting and reconnecting... Jun 21 20:11:59 [1363]: dhcpcd-9.4.1 starting Jun 21 20:11:59 [1365]: DUID 00:04:d6:2f:bb:00:56:2c:39:dc:db:c8:2c:56:dc:39:18:78 Jun 21 20:12:01 [1365]: br0: soliciting a DHCP lease Jun 21 20:12:01 [1365]: br0: offered 192.168.1.7 from 192.168.1.1 Jun 21 20:12:01 [1365]: br0: probing address 192.168.1.7/24 Jun 21 20:12:06 [1365]: br0: leased 192.168.1.7 for 86400 seconds Jun 21 20:12:06 [1365]: br0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24 Jun 21 20:12:06 [1365]: br0: adding default route via 192.168.1.1 - Jun 21 20:15:32 [1365]: br0: carrier lost Jun 21 20:15:32 [1365]: br0: deleting route to 192.168.1.0/24 Jun 21 20:15:32 [1365]: br0: deleting default route via 192.168.1.1 Jun 21 20:15:39 [1365]: br0: carrier acquired Jun 21 20:15:40 [1365]: br0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.7 Jun 21 20:15:40 [1365]: br0: NAK: from 192.168.1.1 Jun 21 20:15:40 [1365]: br0: soliciting a DHCP lease Jun 21 20:15:40 [1365]: br0: offered 192.168.1.7 from 192.168.1.1 Jun 21 20:15:40 [1365]: br0: probing address 192.168.1.7/24 Jun 21 20:15:45 [1365]: br0: leased 192.168.1.7 for 86400 seconds Jun 21 20:15:45 [1365]: br0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24 Jun 21 20:15:45 [1365]: br0: adding default route via 192.168.1.1 - Jun 21 20:17:27 [1365]: br0: carrier lost Jun 21 20:17:27 [1365]: br0: deleting route to 192.168.1.0/24 Jun 21 20:17:27 [1365]: br0: deleting default route via 192.168.1.1 Jun 21 20:17:33 [1365]: br0: carrier acquired Jun 21 20:17:34 [1365]: br0: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.7 Jun 21 20:17:34 [1365]: br0: NAK: from 192.168.1.1 Jun 21 20:17:34 [1365]: br0: soliciting a DHCP lease Jun 21 20:17:35 [1365]: br0: offered 192.168.1.7 from 192.168.1.1 Jun 21 20:17:35 [1365]: br0: probing address 192.168.1.7/24 Jun 21 20:17:40 [1365]: br0: leased 192.168.1.7 for 86400 seconds Jun 21 20:17:40 [1365]: br0: adding route to 192.168.1.0/24 Jun 21 20:17:40 [1365]: br0: adding default route via 192.168.1.1 What happens if you try a continuous ping and let it run for 10 minutes? Does it come and go? What if you were to manually configure the IP?

Absolutely correct. I'm forced to run mine headless due to an error with a bios upgrade... But did I miss something earlier? You can go to the web portal and you get the login screen? And you can log in as root? and you get the GUI? If so, have you tried logging into the shares as Root?

If you look at the monitor for the unraid server do you see it showing the IP address? Can you log in there just to see that it's working as you expect?

Any chance you have multiple video outputs on the system? I have weird flopping back and forth between my integrated video and my external GPU... Also I have (After updating my BIOS) s freeze if I try to use GUI mode... which may be connected.

Have you checked the machine you are working from? A that you are actually on the network you are looking for and B that you are not statically assigning an invalid address... Also if on Windows is the network configuered as Public or Private... Can you access the router from that network. (I think you said you can)

The array itself, without parity is just Share folders in the root of each drive... Drive 1: TV Series 1 Season 1 Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 4 Drive 2: TV Series 1 Season 1 Episode 3, Episode 5 Season 2 Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3 The actual distribution will depend on how the shares are set up, but the point is all the data is there on each individual drive. If you add the drives into an array, and DONT LET THE SYSTEM FORMAT THEM, the data will remain there and if you haven't touched the files they should show up with the shares and everything there... Adding drives or rearanging the array only messes up parity... And there are ways to fix that. If you were to build your new system with the new drives and get it set up how you want it. You can plug one of the old array drives (Not the Parity disk) in and copy the files off of it. Then plug in the next drive and copy the files form it letting it "Write Into" the new folders. Then add the drive in however you like. I have a Single Array of 7 Disks plus Parity and a separate pool of SSD's for Cache and a Third Pool of one NVME drive for System Files, Dockers and VMs. Unrelated Question: Why are you moving away from the Arr setup? I have been considering looking at the "Trash Guide" to figure out what I'm missing out on by not using it.

If the files are on the array you can just plug the disks in and use Unassigned devices to access them... You may have shares split among the two drives but if you merge them onto the new array it should work fine. Alternatively you can add all the drives together and the files will just be there... But if using parity you will have to rebuild.

What would the Main tab look like with Just Parity 2? Would there be an indication that 1 was missing? I've done it the pull and rebuild many times and have how long it takes without a proper functioning parity. (Unless I stop using the array...)

THat's interesting... My system locks up if I try to run it with GUI mode... If I just boot with CLI it's fine... I thought this changed with an update from Unraid but it might have coincided with a bios update that changed the ability to NOT boot using the external GPU... I wondered if the OP was running the NVIDIA drivers in unraid?

Personally for my Gaming VM I have a monitor hooked directly to it (Actually a monitor on my desk and a LOOONNNGG HDMI cable running to my big screen in the TV room) and for quick jobs I use RDP to remote in. I have a TDARR node running on it along with a bunch of other tools that use the GPU when I'm not using it. At one point I had a miner running on it.

OK, I'll check again... And again... and... again Seriously I am looking at my GUI more often just to see if the banner has appeared than to actually do anything (Please not I'm trying to be funny and I perfectly understand that it will be released when it's "done"... And though I struggle with my own personal daemons, I'm happy to wait)

I was doing so well with NOT checking for an update every day... You've ruined me. I am right in thinking you meant it will show up with the next release of unraid? Thanks

Played a bit of Tiny Tina's Wonderland and saw no stuttering... Played a few minutes of Desserts of Kharak and might have seen a few stutters... But I'm not sure... It was a moment of many things being on screen at once... Thanks

I don't game often, but when I do I really want it to be right... I've got a 4080 running on a Windows 11 VM with a Dedicated PCIE drive. I have had the majority of the cores on my i9-10850K CPU pinned to the VM that I game with but since I really don't get to game that often it seems a shame... If I unpin them is there a way that I can definitively test for micro stutters? Or is it a forgone conclusion that they will happen? Thanks Arbadacarba