Physicsking

November 3, 2019

I am following Spaceinvader One's new 2019 guide to installing OpenVPN (How to setup an OpenVPN-as Server on Unraid -- new 2019 guide). In the beginning (~2:40) he makes a comment that you should have your Unraid Server set as a static IP address. I started doing this on the Settings->Network settings, but was a little confused. I am still learning things and this is what i was thinking

IPv4 Address assignment: Automatic -> Static

IPv4 address: (grey) -> XXX.XXX.X.machine / 24 (where XXX.XXX.X refers to the LAN static address I set on my router)

IPv4 default gateway: (grey) -> xxx.xxx.x.x (router IP I set, non-common)

IPv4 DNS server (grey) -> ????? I don't know what to put here

Anyway, I was looking for tutorials for setting this but didn't come across anything that hit on it exactly. I found a few responses that said not to set Unraid to static IP but assign it an IP in your router via the mac address of the machine. I wasn't able to find this either in my router interface (DLink-655).

My end goal is to be at my sister's house away from my LAN and drop in on my server to watch movies on my laptop. That video from Spaceinvader One is pretty good for setting up everything after this point because I followed it doing everything on my MacBook but got 2 errors.

"This computers apparent public IP address was not different after connecting to the client. It is still ###.###.#.# (ISP provided).

and

"DNS Server address XXX.XXX.X.X is not a public address and is not being routed through the VPN."

Any ideas where I went wrong?

Thanks.

October 17, 2019

okay haha, I was trying to get ahead of the questions for the log. I didn't realize they were different.

As for the plugin, I thought I had it disabled, but I will uninstall and monitor. Thanks Squid.

October 17, 2019

Any ideas why the server moves into a standby mode?

October 17, 2019

I have only been using the Unraid for about 1 month and things were going well. I am slowly moving all my data to the server, but in the past week or two there have been a few instances of when my server shuts down by itself. I will need to verify that "wake up on ethernet" option is set on the Mobo to 'yes' because I was also unable to wake it up by navigating to the /tower from my main computer. I have attached the log file for reference.

Basically, when left over night I have move and trimmer scheduled (not sure if this contributes to the problem) but in the morning the power is off and the power light is blinking.

Please let me know if you need anything else.

syslog (1)

September 18, 2019

10 minutes ago, trurl said:

You are confused about the various Use cache options. A common mistake.

Cache-prefer means try to keep the files on cache and if any wind up on the array, try to move them to cache.

What you want is cache-yes. This means write them to cache and move them to the array.

There is Help in the webUI. You can toggle on/off for the whole webUI using the Help (?) in the top bar, or you can toggle help for a setting by clicking on the label for that setting.

Here is a FAQ that goes into a lot more detail about the uses and effects of the various Use cache settings:

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/page/2/#comment-537383

Thank you I got it running. Very slow (40MB/s), but running. I will check out this FAQ but could you preview something for me? Say I copy files A, B, and C to the Movies folder. I wait a day for the cache to move the files to the array. Then I copy more say files D, E, and C this time. If I accidentally moved file C again to the Cache on the next day when the cache is cleared, will this present a problem when the Mover runs again? Like will I have two C files?

September 18, 2019

2 minutes ago, Squid said:

You probably want to set it to "Yes". Preferred moves stuff from the array to the cache drive, and you'd want the opposite. Pressing the "?" on the top right shows all the help text

Well I have seen your comment almost exactly like this on another topic and it didn't make sense until I read it here. Also, for some reason I never read that last sentence in the help drop down. It is working now.

Also, I found a few tutorials from illuminated nerd and SpaceInvader One. Thanks.

September 18, 2019

Thanks for reading. I just want to say that I am very excited to have my Unraid up and running. It didn't go smoothly but after many hours of reading and Youtube I got it working and the basic CA apps (or plugins?) installed.

Background: My problem is with Mover. I created a share called 'Movies' that utilizes disk 1 and 2. I have set Cache to 'preferred'. My understanding is that I can move movies from the USB (unassigned devices) to the array via the network on my main computer. That is, drag and drop between the file explorer looking at the usb drive and a file explorer looking at the 'exported' 'Movies' folder. (If this is not great please let me know, I was trying not to use the network as the USB is plugged into the unraid tower. Network usage is not bothering me right now, but ideally I would like to get away from it. Getting 163MB/s transfer avg). The files were written to the cache drive and I go to sleep. At 3 am the 'Mover' will start and move all the movies from cache to disk 1 and 2.

So here is the issue: I have set the mover to execute at 20:10 (ideally it would be around 3am but i have been playing with it to automatically start at the soonest time). I have included the Syslog that shows it skips my disks because of docker and libvirt issues(?). I read on forums here that I need to stop the docker and vm services (which I don't know really how to do) and then run Mover again. I stopped my one factorio docker (no VMs) and executed Mover manually and got the same problem (see syslog). So nothing is copying.

It seems like this is a common problem for newbies, but many times I see people running tons of VMs and dockers. I am not on that level yet and just trying to learn one step at a time and get it to execute the way I understand. I am going to keep digging around on here for a solution but if there is a good 'super new and no bash experience' tutorial, I would greatly appreciate it. (of course if the bash scripts are written out, i can copy, paste, and learn, but without that, I probably will break something).

Cheers!

edit: added a picture of my Main