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Also wondering if this should also be changed to "no"? As recommended in various places, including here (step 4): https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-disable-ssh-password-login-on-linux/

Plugin (i'm guessing) seems to duplicate a couple of lines in the sshd_config file in /boot/config/ssh and here..

That's weird, i just updated the NerdPack and also did 'check for updates' and i don't see libffi. UPDATE: I've uninstalled all the apps, Borg, Python - everything. Rebooted. Reinstalled. Rebooted. Still doesn't work libffi isn't available for me to install either.

I don't think it's for Synology at all. My guess is you'd have to install nginx or something to use it. It's really aimed at enterprise i think. The guy who is making it runs a webserver business i think, and he wanted to ditch whatever expensive backup software he uses and switch to Borg, but it wasn't easy to manage across dozens (hundreds?) of hosts, so he's developing his own management console. From what i've gathered it's a solo effort. If you don't have many devices to backup, then it's really overkill. Borg is pretty robust from what i've seen, and you can configure desktop notifications or emails. It's not all there for you, so it can require some work to set it up if you're anal about it (like i am), but it's pretty much set and forget once you're done (i'm not yet done, i'm about half-way there). It'd made a pretty sweet Docker in unRAID, eh?

I'm not Raz, but that would be awesome

@mlapaglia I've seen some efforts on the client side, but nothing comprehensive to manage a range of backup operations performed on a server. Borg has Vorta, and this project seems very similar for Restic: https://github.com/Mebus/restatic Now for Borg, i've seen this astonishing server-side effort: "Borg Backup Server". It looks quite amazing, but it's been in development for i think about 1.5 years and as far as i know it's not yet considered ready for the big time. I presume it also needs a bunch of effort getting it running - some webserver or something. Looks amazing though and maybe one day we'll see it available as a plugin.

This plugin looks really cool. Raz's post on Reddit brought me here. Next we'll 'need' a 'store' from where to preview and get the themes

Borg is in the NerdPack, it's comparable to Restic, but adds compression. I've just spent weeks developing my own scripts to use Borg from my Linux Desktop to unRAID, and for unRAID to perform server-side checks on the repository on a scheduled basis. It took weeks because it's my first go at bash scripts, and i'm also quite anal It's really interesting that Restic is available as a Docker. It just seems odd to me! I'd be interested to hear how you go with it.

Why couldn't the USB be encrypted? It's just a Linux distro, and there's LUKS on this thing i don't see why it couldn't be encrypted. I guess creating a /boot partition would require a redesign. But it could be done i would think. A problem would be you'd need physical access to the device to enter the key. But encrypting the USB would be by choice and that would be a consequence.

Upon subsequent reboots, i still get the error on the server's screen, but the service does seem to load properly. Perhaps the error and the service are not directly related, but still would be a good (low priority) thing to not have the error.

I installed this plugin and have had a small play. After a reboot, i get the error on the device monitor (not web interface): chmod: cannot access '/user/local/emhttp/plugins/denyhosts/icons': No such file or directory. I SSH'd in and saw that the directory does not exist. Upon entering the webGUI, DenyHosts was not started. I started it via the GUI and it says it's started but ?? Through this exercise, it doesn't appear to alert unRAID that it hasn't successfully started - can that please added? Or is that a consequence of this error?

I'm not sure if this relates - were those documents backed up in an old version of Borg? I have no experience with this command option, if it were me, i'd backup my Repository before trying it: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage/upgrade.html

No, i haven't tried. I've only set up Borg on my desktop to backup to unRAID, i haven't yet tackled the server-side. There are... complications . Seems that doing everything as root is how unRAID works, including using SSH as root (only as root). There's a plugin that allows SSH as other users mentioned in that thread which i haven't tried yet, but even if that works - Cron operations will run as root which as i mention in the thread screw the permissions on the backup set (if the backups 'belong' to a different user. I'm new to unRAID and this approach (root all the things) really took me by surprise. I have to decide what i'm going to do.

Please direct me to the recommended practises. Tks.

I've been directed to this plugin after i enquired about logging in as someone other than root via SSH. I'll check it out, though something as serious as SSH security should ideally be in the base product IMO. Frankly, i'm AMAZED that LimeTech haven't disabled password authentication by default, and forced people to use keys (and provided the GUI to do it). I thought that it was basically unheard of for people to use passwords with SSH these days. A lot of people open up their unRAID to the world, and i bet many of them (most?) are just using SSH passwords. I know people are using LetsEncrypt (which has Fail2Ban) - but being in a Docker does that protect SSH connections to the unRAID host? This plugin has existed for over three years. Please LimeTech - incorporate: - SSH keys authentication by default (at least, if not stop passwords entirely). - Fail2Ban baked into the OS.

I've requested 'anacron' in the unRAID 'feature request' sub-forum, well i added mine to someones pre-existing request for it. That request dates back to 2016 so it doesn't appear likely to be added, and as 6.8 has only just landed without it, i doubt it's arrive any time soon... or ever. Can we please have anacron? It's ideal for systems that are not on 24/7. Thank you.

Is there an installation/configuration guide for Emby on unRAID? If not, It'd be good if the Emby guys created a guide (video or not) for people like me who have never used any streaming software before. If there is one already, could you please point me to it? Thanks.

Haha.. not trying to bait, but you know it's pretty much inevitable. Already there's only a handful of hold-outs. I acknowledge unRAID is not going to replace their base (maybe ever*) and it will almost certainly have to come from Slackware and that if it ever* happens, it will be a long time from now. And then the development/testing work by Limeware might be quite significant too. * ever is a long time, but you know what i mean.

Cheeky, but: SystemD Yes, i know this is built on Slackware so it's not going to happen without Slackware adopting it.

BorgBackup requires python-setuptools (which is included in the NerdPack, but not installed automatically with Borg). Is it possible to have this installed when we install Borg? Borg already installs "python3-3.7.3-x86_64-2.txz" as a dependency. Saves us having to DuckGo the error to find out what needs to install. Thanks

Yeah, it would be good. Initially though just information about how to do it manually is good enough.

Green. Make it green Red means bad things

Sweet! I don't even use it yet, but i'd like to buy you a coffee (or beer.. or whatever). Where to donate?

I haven't actually used this yet, i just happened across a SpaceInvader video about it as i'm looking at all my various backup solutions at the moment. It looks pretty neat! It would be even awesomer as an 'App', but that's just being greedy A suggestion that immediately pops into mind now you've added "all VMs" without having to list them, is the reverse: an "exclude VMs" list - in other words all the VMs except these. Just an idea from someone who wandered by

Hiya, i'm looking at backup options and found BorgBackup is in the Nerd Pack, so this is probably my go-to. But in researching, BorgMatic appears to be a very popular "addition" to BorgBackup. It does seem to be a little easier to setup (and copy for modification and re-use on multiple machines). Another popular addition to Borg is "Emborg". https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ https://emborg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ With BorgBackup already included, what do you think the chances are you might include BorgMatic / Emborg? Thanks.