Davin S

changing CPU scaling from eco to 'on demand' fixed mine too

I originally posted in the Dockers section, have since realised this problem is affecting unRAID itself. unRAID's internet connectivity drops in and out (LAN access is fine). From command line, pinging any host on the internet, it flaps between normal ping times, and host unreachable. VM's work perfectly the entire time, even when unRAID itself can't access the internet, and they're all using the same ethernet connection in bridge mode. Docker UI access was intermittantly broken too when being NATed through to unRAID's 172.17.9.0 network, but have worked fine just like the VM's once they're given a custom network connection on the main /24 subnet. I had a daul NIC card as well as the onboard, so took out the dual nic, but no change. Added it back in with internet available on both ports, no change. What might be broken in Linux/unRAID host, that could still allow VM and Docker guests to work? pornstar-diagnostics-20191226-1404.zip

Looks like moving VMs and Docker config data around might have been coincidental. Dockers are still running, but sooner or later their WebUI stops responding, sometimes while I'm using it. No doubt related, I'm also getting 'no connection to github.com' errors. In fact, I’ve now noticed that even pinging hosts out on the internet from the unRAID command line, the connection seems to drop in and out (flaps between getting replies, and host unreachable) VM’s all connect to the internet fine during this, so my temp workaround for the Dockers is assigning Dockers a custom network connection with an IP on same subnet as the unRAID box and the rest of the network. But the underlying problem is still there, as evidenced by intermittent connection to the internet/ I'd really appreciate even a clue as to where to start looking. Logs are there taken from a few seconds ago, while the fault is happening. pornstar-diagnostics-20191226-1404.zip

Near realtime cloud backup is such an important part of the backup puzzle for us unfortunately. Our average time to deliver wedding photos is 10 days, but wedding films are about 6 to 8 weeks, and that's our most vulnerable window. Despite being only 8 km from our CBD (city of a million people), it's in a part where the hills almost meet the city, and we're surrounded by Australian bush.... which comes with the risk of bushfires. We have a local offline Macbook that runs automated card copies (helps remove human element and is isolated from ransomeware), plus redundant server drives that *were* synced to the cloud. Under Windows Server, the backups were seemless. We moved away from Crashplan too, with painfully slow 2Mbps uploads restricting it to small admin type documents. The latest 50% price hike was the nail in the coffin for something so lightly used, now iDrive with 30 version file history is doing that job with almost acceptable 10Mbps uploads. An unlimted G Suite account was fast enough to flatline our 100/40 connection, backing up 150GB to 200GB of camera files from a wedding by the next day. I say *was*, but with no native linux client, and with G Suite not supporting network drives as of 2 years ago, a Windows VM isn't going to help after our move to unRAID. Duplicati starts fast, but drops right off to 100Kbps (yep that's a k). Getting our iDrive account running under the Linux scripts would be great, but that's a project for when I'm feeling braver. In the meantime, a Windows VM is helping there, but photo and video footage is being manually upload to G Suite via a web browser afetr each wedding, until I get Duplicati reliably fast 😥

Last week I was tinkering with the location of VM's and moved system shares on and off the cache. Immediately afterwards, I noticed I'd broken the VM's and all 3 dockers ( Krusader, Duplicati and Shinobi). Updating the container paths fixed the VM's and the Krusader docker, but Duplicati and Shinobi's WebUis were unresponsive (the services start ok). Got side tracked with work, even updated to 6.8 in there too, but today back to trying to fix the remaining 2 dockers. I mucked about, uninstalled the dockers, deleted their old configs, and reinstalled, with no luck. Came back later, Shinobi's WebUI started working, and I'm not sure I actually didn't anything. Duplicati's UI is still broken though. Duplicati's console seems to work, and from unRAID's terminal, I can ping the docker's IP. I get connection refused when I try wget http://172.17.0.3:8200 Any ideas where to start looking?

It's not so much being on the bleeding edge for me, it's the hit and miss cloud backup solutions that I need to test and ease into. Mileage definitely varies on this topic. Because I didn't test the main ones fully, I've run into issues that I would have liked to have known before I moved from Windows to unRAID. Backblaze is supported for example, but only on the expensive B2 plans. Cloudberry Backup does Google Cloud, not Google Drive/G Suite for which I have an unlimited subscription. Duplicati was working great, but then slowed down to a trickle, and now I've broken it and can't get the web UI going. I'm not experienced enough, with Linux to be super confident fixing this stuff in a reasonable time frame, and it causes a few nervous moments.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, and guess that you've just skimmed the thread without reading it fully.... before popping your post cherry. Welcome BTW . No matter how valid your story though, it can easily become misguided input too, if you're paraphrasing without understanding the original comment. A quick catchup. I didn't complain that their prices are too high. I didn't come here without buying anything, asking for free stuff or Black Friday discounts. Here's what did happen: I politely suggested that the unlimited product might be handy if it allowed you to use some of that capacity (of unlimited disks) in a test machine during pre-clears and other prep work. I was even happy to pay more for this extension of an unlimited license. I also made mention that woeful exchange rates and fees make it harder to swallow extra costs for more full licenses, right after your purchase of an unlimited license. The LimeTech team have weighed in, and it's not something they're going to do. No hard feelings, it was just a suggestion after all. Here's the ironic part..... people were so busy getting upset at this suggestion, that no one chimed in with the fact that you can use an expired demo to preclear disks all day long. It doesn't address my wish list of a companion testing platform so you don't need to risk your production machine, but it's a great start.

For anyone stumbling across this thread and trying to update a 9207-8i, it's worth noting that of the 7 firmware downloads listed for the various OSs on the Broadcom site, only 1 has the newer 20.00.07.00 firmware bundled in... 9207-8i_Package_P20_IR_IT_Firmware_BIOS_for_MSDOS_Windows I tried flashing the firmware under Linux, Windows, DOS, and UEFI shell on both a new AMD B450 system, and a 5th Gen i7, and all failed. Wasn't until I got a crusty old Core2 Duo system left over from Noah's Ark check in system, and bam, worked first time. I only persisted because I've read others had trouble on some boards, and having to try 3 times is a bit unlucky, but don't be surprised if it doesn't work on the first system you try.

A great, but misguided point..... yes, as a creative who works in photography and video, if a new enquiry tries to beat me down on price by saying a studio down the road will do it cheaper, I feel like my skills have been treated like a commodity. That hurts. But, have you ever seen me pressure Tom for a Black Friday discount, or to give me freebie/more disks than is included in a 6 or 12 disk licence? Absolutely not, but many keyboard warriors love jumping all over newbies, as if all of us had done that. Now for an apples to apples comparison. If a client who'd booked our unlimited wedding coverage package said "hey, can you film the groom at 2 locations: briefly at the barber shop, and then also at home getting ready. I've paid for your top of the line unlimited coverage, but I'm happy to pay you even more money for the 2nd location, although it would be nice if you could offer a discount for that extra time?" If my other customers started getting all judgy, passing comments on their circumstances without really knowing shit about them, displayed zero empathy, and just generally behaved like people do who have too much internet time on their hands, I would be extremely annoyed at those clients. Then I would say to the bride who asked the question.. "don't be silly, you've paid for unlimited, it's not like your holding another wedding, it's the same wedding....we'd be glad to assist". And I could always politely refuse, and charge full price for an extra location.... tempering my response with the fact that they are a paying client. So far, Tom hasn't weighed in on my polite suggestion, only the forum members who's approaches do risk turning newbies off. I'm trying hard to contribute, share test results when some of us are having the same problem, while ignoring the mob mentality, as most of the people here are great. But I do expect (maybe unfairly) much higher standards from moderators..... perhaps just a little bit more thought before posting, to ensure you're not promoting the overly defensive mob mentality that I've noticed infects the forums at times. Don't get me wrong, it's really great that there's a loyal following ready to defend the product at the drop of a hat, but simmer down a bit kids, there's so much more to life.

Duly noted. I shall remember that suggestions for various bundling and pricing models are most unwelcome here.... or prepare to be judged 😜

Legally and at a moral obligation level, I can hit delete now on most weddings. But sometimes life (especially when dealing with weddings and brides), isn't always that simple. For example, we have had half a dozen clients come back years later and ask for extra footage or a re-edit because of family members who passed, music that became innapropriate after the fact (good old MJ), a change of mind (fads....ugghh!), and family circumstances. Another couple split up before chosing music. But here's the most extreme example.... the bride that we shot her 4 day event spread over 3 weeks in Dec 2014; engagement party (a big 9hr West African affair), pre-wedding shoot, wedding, and a ceremonial 'welcome to your new house' event after the wedding. The bride had trouble picking music for her video, so 400GB of data sat unedited for 5 years. We've now also shot her sister's 4 day weddings event (2017), and don't have music for that either. Nearly a TB together. Late Jan this year, we had begun discussing how best to tell the bride we're editing using production that we'll choose, but we got a call from her sister in Feb telling us she had just died. We'll now be sitting on that footage as long as is needed. I was not paid to store this stuff in high availability local arrays, and in the cloud for 5 years, but I'm sort of obliged to anyway. So sometimes other people's cicrumstances are a little more complicated than you might imagine, something we could all do well to remember when replying on these generally really great forums

Hmmm, well I would have thought the X9 based board might have been a problem if any of yours were going to do it, but maybe it's something more random again. I'm out of boards and time to test with. I guess I've fixed mine by changing to a newer chipset, but would have liked to have given the other guys more clrity on the source of the problem.

As I said, it makes no sense. It could be combination of 8x slot with an old chipset, or more likely, just the chipset on its own. The oldest board I tried it on was a Gigabyte GA-Z68. What vintage/chipset si your board?

OK, I migth have some answers for you. I've tested the LSI 9207 on 4 motherboards, and I've noticed that: - both of my original ebay card and its replacement cause CRC errors when they're in 8x PCIe slots in a couple of slightly older (4 to 5 yesr old) Intel based motherboards (graphics cards were in the 16x slots). - same motherboards, but zeroing every sector under Win 10, 1 board causes CRC errors, the other doesn't ?!?!?! - 2 newer Ryzen based systems, B450 and X570 boards, no errors under any OS. The B450 is running a 3200G with onboard Vega graphics, so I put the LSI card in the 16x PCIe slot. The X570 with 2700x needs a discrete graphics card, but has multiple 16x PCIe slots, so the LSI card went in the second of those and seemed happy. So despite the LSI9207 being an 8x card, I can't seem to get it work in anything less than a 16x slot...... which makes no sense at all. The other weird anomaly in my testing, is the fact that one system behaved differently when running Linux vs Windows. Sorry, so much conflicting evidence, but there seems to be a hardware compability issue, sometimes worse under different OS's, but possibly more tied to age of chipset and possibly the amount of PCIe lanes. More conclusive evidence would come from me jamming an old PCI graphics card in on the older Intel boards, freeing up the 16x PCIe slot to try the LSI card in, but I'm about to get a divorce if I don't finish work soon. Hope that helps get you guys on the right track, and at least give you something to try.

Using this site (you may want to translate to get the full info), it appears my cards are both genuine. https://www.chinahao.com/product/37654310537/ That's not to say they aren't factory seconds being offloaded out the back door to ebay sellers, who in turn pass them to us. Anyway, as I mentioned in my above post, the errors don't seem to happen under windows, so fake or not, that may not be the root cause of the errors.