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  1. Hi all, I think I've hit a bit of a brick wall trying to get monitoring/graphing set-up and I think what I am trying to achieve may not be possible, at least not in the way I'm approaching it. I am using: Grafana docker (to graph stuff) InfluxDB docker (db to store data) UniFi Poller docker (poll Unifi Controller and push data to InfluxDB) Telegraf docker (poll UnRAID and send data to InfluxDB) Apcupsd-influxdb-exporter docker (read APCUPSD UPS data and send to Influx DB) Now, I have all but Apcupsd-influxdb-exporter working fine but seem to have hit a catch-22 situation. Initially I configured everything as HOST (to save on loads of IP addresses being used unnecessarily), but the Unifi Poller failed as my UniFI Controller is running on br0 to give it a dedicated IP address. This is really important for UniFi management. So, i had to move all the other dockers listed above to br0 in order for them to see each other. Not ideal, but it works. If I moved only UniFi poller to br0, it then couldn't see InfluxDB on host, so I had to move that to br0 and so on. I now have Apcupsd-influxdb-exporter which if I set it as HOST can see the UPS data but not InfluxDB. If I set it to br0 it can see InfluxDB but not the host UPS data! There must be a better way to do all this - I want my UniFi controller to remain on br0 and preferably everything else to be on HOST. This would mean the UniFi Poller docker would somehow have to communicate with a br0 docker (the UniFi controller). Or any other suggestions? This seems rather complex just to get some stats in one place and chart them!
  2. I've been trying a number of options to shrink .ts recorded stuff and all have been too complicated, slow or clunky. Recordings-autoconverter is working beautifully. Thanks
  3. Hi all, I’ve recently built my first UnRAID server, which went well but I have question regarding how I’ve powered the hard drives. Better safe than sorry, so though I’d ask here. My build uses the Corsair SF450 Platinum PSU. I want to power 6 x SATA (at least for now). I have the SATA power from the PSU connected to four drives using the included cable. Additionally I have 2 x 2 way SATA splitter on two of the connectors in order to give me a total of 6. There are no further SATA power sockets on the PSU. I also have the Molex socket being used via the supplied Molex cable only to the case fan. This cable has a spare a Molex socket which I could use to go to two of the drives using something like the Silverstone Molex to 4 SATA sleeved high-quality cable. To summarise: Now: PSU -> Sata -> Sata (split to 2 Sata) -> Sata -> Sata (split to 2 x Sata) Possible: PSU -> Sata -> Sata -> Sata -> Sata PSU -> Molex -> Molex -> Sata -> Sata Would this be a safer bet?
  4. Thanks I hadn't even considered that. I mounted the SF PSU on its adapter plate (the platinum came with one) so it is flush against the bottom of the case against the air intake. I could rotate the adapter so the PSU has space underneath. I wasn't sure if it was better flush or not. Running two SATA power cables in the way you describe would work really well with the flip-orientation the bays hold the drives. Currently I've all six from a single connection on the PSU, as the others are taken. I could split on one the others though to give me 2 x 3 rather than the 1 x 6 I currently have. At present one cage only has one drive mounted and the old SSD is blu-tac'd to the side as a temporary measure while I copy data off it to the new m.2 drive. I'll then be removing it anyway. Good stuff, thanks for the feedback.
  5. Look what arrived today! 5 hours later.... And UnRAID works perfectly. Plex GPU transcoding is working fine. Everything else appears to be great. I need to move my Cache drive from the old SSD to the new M.2 SSD. I also need to sort out the cable management inside. It's currently a bit of a mess. I found 6 x SATA and power really difficult to fit. So far, so good though. Considering how wrong it all could have gone!
  6. Looks like a nice case, but a lot more expensive and too deep to have the removable bays pointing front (I have limited space).
  7. Just to update everyone. After loads of forum searching my list has changed quite a bit. It's now based on what others have working with both UnRAID and Plex. Case - Fractal Design Node 304 Motherboard - ASRock Z390M-ITX/AC Processor - Intel i3 8100 RAM - Crucial Ballistix Sport LT BLS2K8G4D32AESBK SSD - Corsair CSSD-F240GBMP510 M.2 PSU - Corsair SF450 Platinum
  8. Reading some more, this is very VERY good advice. I’m scouring various forums to see what might be more suitable. I have a few leads so we’ll see where they take me. So far the ASRock 390M-ITX/AC is looking good. Supports both Unraid and Plex (inc gpu on new intels), has 6 SATA and dual Ethernet. I’ll lose things such as ECC memory support and lights out management, which is a shame.
  9. I've found some Kingston RAM in spec. However, I'm now in a pickle. It looks like the i3 8100 isn't supported and from what I can tell a newer board P11C-I is what I need. I can't see many other changes except more recent CPU support. However, I can't find out much about the P11C-I and what I can doesn't fill me with confidence. ASUS seem to suggest the GPU in the 8100 (or any i series) isn't supported, which is rather worrying, unless I'm missing something? I wanted the GPU for Plex, and without it I might as well get the 8100T which is cheaper. I think! Assuming I want the i3 8100 is there a better board? ASRock or SuperMicro? I though I was set, but now confused again!
  10. Hi Good catch on the RAM. You’re right, it should be UDIMM. I’ll look for an alternative. The board comes with mini SAS and apparently to get 6 SATA an adapter is required. Think I read that in a couple of the Amazon reviews.
  11. Hi all, Currently running a HP Microserver Gen8 (with upgrade i3 3240T cpu). Used for Plex (but not shared with the world as I only have 30/3 VDSL!), PiHole, Transmission, UniFI Controller, HA Bridge. Store all of my photos, music, films, documents etc. I like the form factor of the HP, but not the price/performance of the "new" Gen 10. I like the front drive bays, but as I rarely swap anything it isn't a necessity. I've been thinking of a new box for a while so here goes with my first build since 1995. Things have changed a bit - lots of new TLA's to learn. As space is at a premium I've found a small case and everything sort of followed on from there. I'd really appreciate a sanity check as almost everything is new to me! case - Fractal Design node 304. This fits where I need it to and has room for lots of drives, considering its size. motherboard - ASUS P10S-I. Not cheap, but gets good feedback. psu - Corsair SF450 Platinum. Only 5 UKP more than the Gold and comes with the required adapter bracket to fit the node. cpu - Core i3 8100. Seems good value in the UK. Has integrated GPU. Retail box comes with cooler/heatsink. cache - Transcend 240GB SATA III 6Gb/s MTS420S 42mm M.2 SSD420S Solid State Drive. Keeps a SATA drive bay free. RAM - Crucial CT16G4RFS4266 16 GB DDR4 2666 MT/s (PC4-21300) CL19 SR x 4 ECC Registered DIMM 288-Pin Memory. ECC as why not. Drives - WD red or ones taken from the 8TB MyBooks. other - CY Internal Mini SAS SFF-8643 Host to 4 SATA 7pin Target Hard Disk 6Gbps Data Server Raid Cable 50cm for my SATA drives - WD Red. other - Asus IPMI 2.0 Management Upgrade Motherboard Kit with KVM That's about £600 right now, probably can do better if I hunt for deals. Have I missed anything? Chosen anything crazy? So much is new to me it's taken quite a while to put this lot together. Thanks all!
  12. Ok, makes sense. Thanks for the explanation, it really is appreciated.
  13. Thank you. That at least points me in a direction to investigate. Assume the issue with the drive firmware is only apparent with the latest kernel on Unraid 6.8. Taken a long read of the issue, and to be honest it’s way above what I understand. There does not appear to be an updated firmware version for the drive and it isn’t obvious how to contribute to the discussion (or even if it is allowed). A possible way of mitigating the issue is suggested in the thread - rate limit the transfer. This can be done in Borg by doing the following https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/661 which I’ll try to see if it helps. In the meantime, if anyone is able to shed light on if this issue would affect my backups I’d be grateful. They do appear to still be working. Thanks again and obviously close the thread if you feel it is no longer an Unraid issue, although I’d welcome any further help!
  14. Hi Had 6.8 RC3 running beautifully for a few days, but have noticed I'm getting the following log entries when backing up to sda: Oct 22 03:15:01 Tower root: Starting Borg Backup - movies Oct 22 03:15:10 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unaligned partial completion (resid=78, sector_sz=512) Oct 22 03:15:12 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unaligned partial completion (resid=78, sector_sz=512) Oct 22 03:15:14 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unaligned partial completion (resid=78, sector_sz=512) Oct 22 03:15:16 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unaligned partial completion (resid=78, sector_sz=512) Oct 22 03:15:18 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unaligned partial completion (resid=78, sector_sz=512) Oct 22 03:15:20 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unaligned partial completion (resid=78, sector_sz=512) Oct 22 03:22:57 Tower root: Started Borg Pruning - movies [sda] is an external WD MyBook 8Tb drive connected via USB3 and mounted via Unassigned Drives (XFS formatted). Backup is via Borg Backup (1.1.10) and has been working without these messages prior to 6.8. The drive appears to pass smart and the backup appears to work. The backup logs also reports success. 6.7 does not give these log entries. I've googled the issue, but to be honest it's a bit beyond me. Suggestions / advice would be helpful.
  15. Hi all, I've recently started getting martian reports in the Unifi USG logs, such as: Sep 29 04:54:35 UniFiUSG kernel: IPv4: martian source 107.201.130.93 from 172.17.0.4, on dev eth1 Sep 29 04:54:35 UniFiUSG kernel: ll header: 00000000: 78 8a 20 40 b8 ed 70 10 6f 3e 03 08 08 00 x. @..p.o>.... 172.17.0.4 is the bridge IP address of the Unifi Controller docker. In trying to track this down (and understand what it is telling me) I thought it possibly a good idea to change the docker from host mode to custom (eth0) with a fixed IP and all ports left as the are. Is this a sensible configuration? I have Pihole configured like this and it works well. All other dockers are in bridge mode. Clearly i'd also need to change the controller IP etc from within the Unifi controller settings. I have asked on the UniFi forum, but this is more docker/unraid specific as a first step in helping identify the issue.
  16. Hi all, I have an UnRAID box running 6.7.2 with a number of dockers - Plex, UniFi Controller, PiHole to name a few. Recently, on the UniFi USG logs I am seeing martian messages: Sep 28 10:10:59 UniFiUSG kernel: IPv4: martian source 51.255.195.31 from 172.17.0.4, on dev eth1 Sep 28 10:10:59 UniFiUSG kernel: ll header: 00000000: 78 8a 20 40 b8 ed 70 10 6f 3e 03 08 08 00 x. @..p.o>.... Sep 28 10:30:23 UniFiUSG kernel: IPv4: martian source 98.118.121.62 from 172.17.0.4, on dev eth1 Sep 28 10:30:23 UniFiUSG kernel: ll header: 00000000: 78 8a 20 40 b8 ed 70 10 6f 3e 03 08 08 00 x. @..p.o>.... The MAC address is that of my UnRAID box. eth1 is my LAN port. However, 172.17.0.4 is not in use by the server, or by any of the dockers which has left me confused! The UniFi Controller docker uses 172.17.0.4. Tautulli uses 172.17.0.2 but that's it according to the dockers page details. Anyone got any suggestions for tracking this down further?
  17. My Raspberry Pi install of Pihole failed last night due to a corrupted SD card, but I was able to get Pihole back up and running within 5 minutes using this docker. Thank you! The instructions on page 1 of this thread (and also the cron post further down) are a bit confusing in light of version 2. Apart from installing and configuring the docker, is there any other set-up/maintenance necessary? Is the cron still necessary? Are updates done via the docker update mechanism or from within the docker with PiHole -up?
  18. That an interesting observation and one I hadn’t considered. I swap between external drives, taking one offsite so the window of attack is lessoned, if not eliminated. I’ll have to consider if I change my backup practice, or if I’m willing to take the (small imho) risk. Thanks for the clarification.
  19. Essential plugin that's given me years of hassle-free use... I have an external (USB) Segate drive that I use with Duplicati for backups. It is mounted via Unassigned Devices and spins up when a backup is executed and down again after. All is well. I have a new WD MyBook (8tb USB) drive I want to use in the same way. However, it is being temperamental in spinning down when not required. By default the WD has its own power management and APM is set to off. If I use hdparm to set the timeout and enable APM it works for a bit, then resets itself (seemingly randomly after an hour or so, I know it would on server reboot). If I use the built in WD power management it spins down as instructed, but up again at random times. The drive is not being accessed as I only use it for backups at 4am. If I go to the web UI "main" page at any time I always get a pause on the Unassigned Devices section while the drive spins up. The Segate drive behaves perfectly and doesn't do this. Anyway, I'm not expecting a magical solution to this, but with a bit of help I think I have a workaround. If I unmount the device it seems to stay spun-down. I've searched but cannot find a way to mount (and unmount) via the command line. I'm sure it must be possible. I could then add a pre (and post) Duplicati script to mount before a backup and unmount after, which should sort things. Any help with the command I could use to mount (a previously configured drive in Unassigned Devices) would be really helpful. Thanks.
  20. I don't get this comment. It's a backup. It may not be offsite, but it's definitely a backup! Anyway, I have a WD MyBook USB drive attached to my box for on-site backups. It's mounted via Unassigned Devices and backup is via Duplicati (with one backup kicking off each night). I want it spun down the rest of the time. I've found the following works: hdparm -B 127 /dev/sdb hdparm -S 12 /dev/sdb First command switches on power-management. Second sets spin down to 2 minutes. I've had the put these commands in /boot/config/go as they don't persist after a reboot. I've also found that viewing the webUI 'main' screen spins the disk back up, which is a shame but liveable with unless anyone can suggest a way to avoid this. Interestingly I have another drive attached in exactly the same way (Segate external) and this does spin down without any of this. It also doesn't spin up as the WD does when I view the web ui so the WD must be responding to something Unassigned Devices is sending. I hope this is helpful to the OP.
  21. Have I done something stupid? I was running 5.8.30 fine. UnRAID did it's usual weekly update earlier today and now I get the following error on running the controller: "We do not support upgrading from 5.8.30." Any ideas? UPDATE: RESOLVED. Repository had reverted to stable branch. Re-added "unstable" and all is well.
  22. Wow, quick response! Unfortunately, the other docker only keeps logs within the appdata folder, everything else must be within the docker image which seems a bit unusual. This is why I'm keen to move to the Linuxserver.io one. I'm hoping I can do a config back from within the UniFi controller app (.unf file). I can then hopefully import that once I get to the Set-up screen on the UniFi controller on this docker. *** UPDATE *** Just for information. I installed the Linuxserver.io docker. Restored the .unf file from my previous docker and all is up and running in under 5 minutes. I now have my config on my cache in an accessible place, rather than from within the docker image.
  23. Hello all. If I wanted to move from the other UniFi controller docker to this one, is there a "simple" migration path? Can I simply backup my old config from within the UniFi controller app, install this docker, disable the old docker, run up this one and import my config? I'm trying to avoid having to set everything up from scratch again as it was a right pain last time! Many thanks
  24. Excellent. Thank you. One more question if I may. I have automatic backups ON. The backup goes to a backup location within the docker (see below). The docker currently maps: /var/lib/unifi -> /mnt/cache/appdata/unifi/ I thought I could simply add a new route for the backup to expose an external location to the docker, eg: /usr/lib/unifi/data/backup/autobackup -> /mnt/cache/appdata/unifi/autobackup (note the /usr rather than /var) The /var/lib/unifi seem to contain the server.log only. The /usr/lib/unifi seems to contain everything else! When starting the docker with the new path added, the UniFi controller had lost all my settings. Removing this mapping fixed things, but obviously auto backups are back to being within the docker image. I believe the question was asked back in April (by lchichiarelli) but I can't find what the resolution was. ps. Happy Christmas!