Arbadacarba

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    296

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Arbadacarba

    help setting up shares

    in General Support

    Posted

    I had to google to to figure out what TRaSH Guides was... It's a guide for improving the results he was getting from Radarr and 

    sonarr... OR I'm looking at the wrong thing entirely...

     

    https://trash-guides.info/

     

    To be honest he is setting things up a little strangely... About the only benefit I can see from his method is that you can limit your mapping down to one setting... But that can be done more easily as well...

     

    Certainly there may be benefit from this technique, but if it aint broke...

     

    If you are looking for simple and functional sharing structures I would set each media type up as a share... I understand the dissatisfaction of mixing great and not so great copies of movies and music, but having them split up between various sources seems like a mess to me.

     

    I managed all of my music by hand before I discovered Unraid and honestly find the Unraid default to be very functional. The only thing I do is restrict the various shares to individual drives so that I can send the idle drives to sleep and not risk long pauses between tv episodes or music tracks while drives spin up.

    • Like 1

    help setting up shares

    in General Support

    Posted

    The Data folder that has been advised is pretty standard practice when setting up small Windows server installs... But that is because the infrastructure is not nearly as robust in Windows as it is in Unraid.

     

    Any chance the person/site that recomended that method is NOT familiar with Unraid?

     

    QEMU Guest Agent install problems on pfsense in VM

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted

    I have a couple of Hypervisors with pfsense running on them (Unraid and Proxmox) and finally figured out a problem I'm having is caued by pfsense not shutting down when asked.

     

    So I installed the QEMU Guest Agent on the Proxmox VM and it seems to have worked beautifully.

     

    https://forum.netgate.com/topic/162083/pfsense-vm-on-proxmox-qemu-agent-installation

     

    So lets try the pfsense VM on the Unraid server:

     

    1660578057.840915: debug: disabling command: guest-suspend-disk
    1660578057.841103: debug: disabling command: guest-suspend-ram
    1660578057.841109: debug: disabling command: guest-suspend-hybrid
    1660578057.841113: debug: disabling command: guest-set-vcpus
    1660578057.841116: debug: disabling command: guest-get-memory-blocks
    1660578057.841119: debug: disabling command: guest-set-memory-blocks
    1660578057.841122: debug: disabling command: guest-get-memory-block-size
    1660578057.841126: debug: disabling command: guest-get-memory-block-info
    1660578057.841129: debug: disabling command: guest-fsfreeze-status
    1660578057.841137: debug: disabling command: guest-fsfreeze-freeze
    1660578057.841140: debug: disabling command: guest-fsfreeze-freeze-list
    1660578057.841144: debug: disabling command: guest-fsfreeze-thaw
    1660578057.841147: debug: disabling command: guest-fstrim
    1660578057.841185: critical: error opening channel: No such file or directory
    1660578057.841190: critical: error opening channel
    1660578057.841193: critical: failed to create guest agent channel
    1660578057.841196: critical: failed to initialize guest agent channel

     

    OK, I'm clearly missing something... How do I get Unraid to open that channel?

     

    from the xml:

     

        <channel type='unix'>
          <source mode='bind' path='/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/channel/target/domain-37-pfSense - Cerberus/org.qemu.guest_agent.0'/>
          <target type='virtio' name='org.qemu.guest_agent.0' state='disconnected'/>
          <alias name='channel0'/>
          <address type='virtio-serial' controller='0' bus='0' port='1'/>
        </channel>

     

     

    (To be fair the first install is on pfsense CE and the Unraid one is running pfsense plus... So that could be the cause but I don't think so.

     

    Thanks for any input

     

     

    jupiter-diagnostics-20220815-1228.zip

    Help moving to new server hardware

    in General Support

    Posted

    Creating a new config doesn't affect the array data, but eliminates Unraid's expectations for the drives.

    I had a problem where my Parity disc was falling offline due to a power problem... Creating a new configuration allowed me to reset the parity disc without messing with the array data.

    Retiring an Old Server

    in General Support

    Posted

    I work with medical records and have been tasked with wiping drive many times... I have one particular client who is a pediatric dermatologist... He uses a single laptop both in the office and for personal use... When I discovered that he had an Apple Time Capsule that held the backups of his machines... When it was time to decomision that divice, the solution was easy enough - I drilled a couple of holes in the disc, directly through the platters.

     

    2.5' drives have the added benefit of often being constructed of glass platters that EXPLODE when you hit them with the drill.

     

    Arbadacarba

    Is there a good way to reallocate data/space on disks?

    in General Support

    Posted

    One piece of advice... if unbalance gets stopped before it's finished, it leaves duplicate files in the original location, (It copies and then deletes. 

    I screwed up and stopped it only to discover later that I had a HUGE amount of duplicate files afterwards) so don't try and cancel an unbalance session because it's taking to long.

     

    I still use it but now I'm cautious.

    • Like 1

    [Support] spaceinvaderone - Shinobi Pro

    in Docker Containers

    Posted

    Had a problem and found a solution, and thought it would be useful to post here:

     

    I have Shinobi running in Spaceinvaderone's docker and it works great. I have 4 cameras with one acting as a driveway camera and one as a baby cam. My wife and I occasionally want to bring up one of those in a hurry.

     

    I really like the "Pop" out view that opens a browser window and just displays that single stream.

     

    I tried creating a shortcut in Heimdall with the address from the "Pop" out windows, but discovered quickly that one of the components of the shortcut changes periodically.

     

    http://192.168.0.10:8080/md0vACTM78E2ZCIDhWsFX5XZVW2ZzD/embed/Xvjuafz1pM/xYaDpX8fAP/fullscreen%7Cjquery%7Crelative%7Cgui (Numbers Scrambled)

     

    Tried Searching and found practically nothing other than one person saying they had figured it out... (but no details)

    And of course the Shinobi manual: https://shinobi.video/docs/api

     

    But after I figured it out I thought I would share it...

     

    First Step is to create an API Key:

     

    Down Arrow top left corner - API </>

     

    Flip all the switches to NO except View Streams - Enter 0.0.0.0 in allowed IP's field. (I would prefer to restrict the IP's to machines inside my ip range, and I seem to have luck with that by putting my router's address here... But to be honest I don't understand why that should work)

     

    Click Add

     

    Copy the Key that is created and insert it into the address:

    http://192.168.0.10:8080/[HERE]/embed/Xvjuafz1pM/xYaDpX8fAP/fullscreen%7Cjquery%7Crelative%7Cgui

     

    And now you have a working URL for the camera...

     

    I do find I have to flip the switch in the bottom left corner occasionally (again no idea why)

     

    Hope someone finds this useful

    General Array issues

    in General Support

    Posted

    I ran into a problem where my parity drive was dropping out when I would bring a drive connected to my removable bay online... The two removable drives and the parity drive were connected to the same power cable off my 1000w PSU.

     

    I planned to install a capacitor in the power line but got lucky and simply connecting a separate power line from the same rail on the PSU did the trick.

     

    Any chance you've got something else coming online?

     

    Replace 1TB drives with 8TB drive in NON cache pool

    in General Support

    Posted

    Do you mean to say that you have a raid card with a raid0 configured? Or are you just assuming that the pool is raid 0?

     

    7 hours ago, Tymarand said:

    Is this possible?  I have found through testing that I can remove a disk from the pool and mount it under "Unassigned Devices", I'm assuming because I have Raid 0?  Could I then just throw the 8TB disk in and copy the data over?

     

    Raid 0 Specifically precludes this... In raid 0 pulling one of the disks completely breaks all of the disks... But I thought they all had to be the same size?

     

    RAID 0[edit]

    See also: JBOD

    Diagram of a RAID 0 setup

    RAID 0 (also known as a stripe set or striped volume) splits ("stripes") data evenly across two or more disks, without parity information, redundancy, or fault tolerance. Since RAID 0 provides no fault tolerance or redundancy, the failure of one drive will cause the entire array to fail; as a result of having data striped across all disks, the failure will result in total data loss. This configuration is typically implemented having speed as the intended goal.[2][3] RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a large logical volume out of two or more physical disks.[4]

    A RAID 0 setup can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 120 GB disk is striped together with a 320 GB disk, the size of the array will be 120 GB × 2 = 240 GB. However, some RAID implementations allow the remaining 200 GB to be used for other purposes.

    The diagram in this section shows how the data is distributed into stripes on two disks, with A1:A2 as the first stripe, A3:A4 as the second one, etc. Once the stripe size is defined during the creation of a RAID 0 array, it needs to be maintained at all times. Since the stripes are accessed in parallel, an n-drive RAID 0 array appears as a single large disk with a data rate n times higher than the single-disk rate. (wikipedia)

     

    So that would mean that your raid 0 array would be 20TB

    Whats the correct split level for this share structure?

    in General Support

    Posted

    I would lower the split to keep types of media together... Assuming fairly large drives and the intent to let them spin down. I keep my drives almost single purpose so that once spun up, it can continue to perform the most likely next request.

     

    My movie disk for example may only spin up for a few hours a week, while my music disk is spun up about 6 hours a day.

    UnraId IP router :> Internal dockers/VM's ...

    in General Support

    Posted

    Vr2Io is exactly right:

    4 hours ago, Vr2Io said:

    It direct reachable by others in same subnet, if need host Unraid access, then you need enable host access.

     

     

     

    Settings - Docker

    Turn Docker off - Apply

    Host access to custom networks: Enabled

    Turn Docker On - Apply

     

    Figured that out today trying to do the exact same thing so that my wife doesn't have to input ports