On 12/11/2023 at 2:50 AM, wgstarks said:

I switched from 7.3.83 without any issues. Since they’re two completely separate containers you can just stop the current one, after getting your backup, and then go through the process to install the replacement. It’s easy to revert back if you have issues.

 

I have been following ll this and ready to jum,p on board also.

This comment may have answered my question however - I am currently on linuxserver/unifi-controller:7.3.83 and this new container only provides for 7.5.187-unraid and 8.0.7-unraid.  I had assumed I have to change my current controller to one of these as the backup and restore would be a large jumpt to a newer release.

 

So is it OK therefore to JUMP to the 7.5.187-unraid release ? with my 'older' hardware - namely :

 

USG3

US-8-60W

USW-Flex-Mini

UAP-AC-Lite

UAP-AC-LR

 

EDIT - Never mind, I did a snapshot and took the plunge on the 'upgrade' on the linuxserver.io and changed the tag to linuxserver/unifi-controller:7.5.187-ls216.  All my stuff seesm fine - so far only noticed my 'LAN' has changed to 'Default' everywhere - but all is working well.  I can now do a direct backup / restore to your new container @peteasking - thanks heaps on all this effort....... or should I go the 8.0.7 route.......  while feeling reckless! 

Edited December 12, 20232 yr by vw-kombi
Did it anyway.

Any thoughts on making a copy of the current linuxserver.io unifi appdata and then configuring the reborn container to the location of the appdata copy?  Will the reborn unifi be able to use the copy of the linuxserver.io appdata so that no restore is required and hopefully I retain my SSL self signed certificate (I don't recall how I got it to work, but I am hoping to avoid having to do it again).
 

 

6 hours ago, mifronte said:

Any thoughts on making a copy of the current linuxserver.io unifi appdata and then configuring the reborn container to the location of the appdata copy?  Will the reborn unifi be able to use the copy of the linuxserver.io appdata so that no restore is required and hopefully I retain my SSL self signed certificate (I don't recall how I got it to work, but I am hoping to avoid having to do it again).
 

 

This is beyond the scope of the project unfortunately. Unifi provide a backup and restore method that seems to work and so doing more complex restores is not something we can support. 

7 hours ago, vw-kombi said:

 

I have been following ll this and ready to jum,p on board also.

This comment may have answered my question however - I am currently on linuxserver/unifi-controller:7.3.83 and this new container only provides for 7.5.187-unraid and 8.0.7-unraid.  I had assumed I have to change my current controller to one of these as the backup and restore would be a large jumpt to a newer release.

 

So is it OK therefore to JUMP to the 7.5.187-unraid release ? with my 'older' hardware - namely :

 

USG3

US-8-60W

USW-Flex-Mini

UAP-AC-Lite

UAP-AC-LR

 

EDIT - Never mind, I did a snapshot and took the plunge on the 'upgrade' on the linuxserver.io and changed the tag to linuxserver/unifi-controller:7.5.187-ls216.  All my stuff seesm fine - so far only noticed my 'LAN' has changed to 'Default' everywhere - but all is working well.  I can now do a direct backup / restore to your new container @peteasking - thanks heaps on all this effort....... or should I go the 8.0.7 route.......  while feeling reckless! 

If you backup your docker images as per the normal way on unraid with the ca backup plugin then you can always try and roll back of its not working for you. 

I have setup xfs now on my cache drives so I can snapshot save rather than appdata backup.  Never any downtime anymore for the saves.  It’s liberating.  I followed space invader one’s YouTube for instructions on all that.  Really good and automated snapshot saves to the other cache drive each night.

9 minutes ago, vw-kombi said:

I have setup xfs now on my cache drives so I can snapshot save rather than appdata backup.  Never any downtime anymore for the saves.  It’s liberating.  I followed space invader one’s YouTube for instructions on all that.  Really good and automated snapshot saves to the other cache drive each night.

Ok then I guess there is no harm to try an upgrade if you can roll back easily. Let us know how it goes.

Would there be an issue if I rename the container name?  I believe I will need it to match my current SSL certificate.

15 minutes ago, mifronte said:

Would there be an issue if I rename the container name?  I believe I will need it to match my current SSL certificate.

Its unclear to me why you dont just make a new self signed certificate. Isnt that the entire point of it - that its free and a new one can be generated anytime?

 

In terms of your proposed change I cant tell you what will happen. The container is new and in beta so you would have to test it and post back what happens. 
 

Its just unclear to me why you are making your life harder than it has to be. Regenerating a self signed cert is pretty normal and most times an appropriate method to use. Reusing an old self signed certificate isnt the norm. 

Edited December 13, 20232 yr by PeteAsking

I have installed this now - same version 7.5.187 (with -unraid added of course), and configured the same (custom:eth0--LAN and hardcoded IP address).

I noticed the restore did not restart the container as I had to do that manually.

One thing I had on the previous container is the timezone added to the docker container like this :

Will this be supported on your new container ?   Is it added in the same way ?

12 hours ago, vw-kombi said:

 

I noticed the restore did not restart the container as I had to do that manually.

 

This is/was already noted on page 1.

 

12 hours ago, vw-kombi said:

One thing I had on the previous container is the timezone added to the docker container like this :

Will this be supported on your new container ?   Is it added in the same way ?

 

No you set it in the web interface under settings, system, timezone.

Edited December 14, 20232 yr by PeteAsking

42 minutes ago, PeteAsking said:

This is/was already noted on page 1.

 

 

No you set it in the web interface under settings, system, timezone.

 

Thanks, and it was already there.

Still trying to decide if I now update to the later release......

Some good things in there re vlan viewing etc.

Appreciate the effort in putting this together. Spent an evening trying to migrate to the 2-docker linuxserver version and gave up. This was really straightforward.

 

Used 8.0.24 (11notes/unifi:8.0.24-unraid) since that's what I was previously on and what the backup was built with.

Only (known) issue I ran into was on Restore which appeared to hang. Restarted the container, logged in and everything looks great. 

Edited December 20, 20232 yr by kahunamike

2 minutes ago, kahunamike said:

Only (known) issue I ran into was on Restore which appeared to hang. Restarted the container, logged in and everything looks great. 

I had the same issue when I switched.

Hey All,

 

I am kind of new to Unraid and saw that this Docker was available.  I am so excited that this worked flawlessly from my backup.  Thank you for building this for us!

 

I am having one problem.  Under my devices, my switch and AP can be seen and updated.  But my USG always shows offline.  Everything is working, internet is up.  Is there something I am missing?

I was under the impression the usg ran the controller software itself?

4 hours ago, PeteAsking said:

I was under the impression the usg ran the controller software itself?

Not the usg no.  The more advanced ones unify devices do have their own.  
USG is very very old now - mine is still going strong.

39 minutes ago, vw-kombi said:

Not the usg no.  The more advanced ones unify devices do have their own.  
USG is very very old now - mine is still going strong.

The very old devices are not supported by this version of the controller I am afraid. 

I have an edgerouterX as a warm standby should the USG ever fail, as a stopgap while a newer one arrives.  I think a number of people still run old stuff like this.  No issues yet.  

19 minutes ago, PeteAsking said:

The very old devices are not supported by this version of the controller I am afraid. 

The USG I just took out of service yesterday was running fine with the 8.0.24 version of this controller.  I replaced the USG with the new UXG-Lite which also has no buit-in controller.  It is working very well in this controller.

 

The older (but not too old) Dream Router and the new UniFi Express both have a built-in controller and cannot be managed by this, or any other, controller container or cloud key.

Edited December 21, 20232 yr by Hoopster

USG-lite is what I would upgrade to also.  Very difficult to get in Australia.

8 minutes ago, vw-kombi said:

USG-lite is what I would upgrade to also.  Very difficult to get in Australia.

UXG-Lite was in and out of stock twice in the Ubiquiti US store before I finally got one on Monday on the third try (out of stock again later that night).  Fortunately, I live very close to one of their US warehouses so I got it delivered two days after ordering.

 

It is in short supply everywhere. 

I think you guys should look into running opnsense with zenarmor as its cheaper and has more features and is overall a better product. The unifi routers are a bit in the weak side. 

I came from pfsense  running on UnRaid, then tried it in a spare laptop.  Eventually as I have UniFi ap’s and switch and frequent lockups in pfsense, I bought the usg.  That was so many years ago now I can’t remember and it has been bullet proof ever since.  One unified interface for all my few and vlan secured networks is great.  In Aus, We dont have the flashy fast internet that you other countries have.  Our crazy ex PM once said 25 down and 5 up is more than enough!!!!  

Im saying in 2023 a layer 7 firewall that does traffic inspection is a must. As in tick a box to block youtube or a certain website or tick a box to block botnets and so on.

What percentage of the world wide home routers have this?  That would be a minute amount I would think.  I suspect > 99% of the planet would have the basic cheap isp supplied router or something they got ages ago that still just works.  What percentage of the world’s ‘home’ users would even know what ids/ips was.  That is on the USG also.