hi all,

 

I recently downsized my NAS from a large 4u unit to a smaller unit from jonsbo that holds 5 HDD.  With that, I also switched from FreeNAS to unraid as FreeNAS was a little more complex than I was looking for.

 

My current set us has 3 HDDs for usage and 2 drives for parity, so a total of 12TB of usable disk space - each drive is 4TB.

 

I currently have a jellyfin media share that is set up on disk 1, taking up approximately 900gb.

 

I have 2 other potential use cases for this new NAS unit, backing up some of my servers to it and spinning up some VMs on it to play around with windows servers some more. 

should I manually set the backups to use disk 2 and the VMs to use disk 3, or will unraid automatically allocate the disk(s) based on current usage/utilization?

as for the backups, what's the best approach here?  I was planning on creating a directory under /mnt to store the backups.  I currently run a bash script (I think a few are php based still) to run my backups through rsync.

thanks for any help/suggestions!

1 minute ago, andrewjs18 said:

I was planning on creating a directory under /mnt to store the backups

You must not create anything directly under /mnt. Just create a user share for your backups and Unraid will create the appropriate subfolders on your disks.

5 hours ago, trurl said:

You must not create anything directly under /mnt. Just create a user share for your backups and Unraid will create the appropriate subfolders on your disks.

 

thank you.  do you have a suggestion on where to store my scripts on the system that will need to run to backup my other servers to the unraid box?

Have a look at    CA User Scripts    plugin which can be found by searching APPS tab...

On 2/3/2024 at 7:50 AM, Frank1940 said:

Have a look at    CA User Scripts    plugin which can be found by searching APPS tab...

 

thank you, this has been working well so far.

 

is there a way to hook into the smtp settings so that once crontab runs its cronjobs, it'll email me a report as to what happened with the cronjobs that ran?  I usually just do this in ubuntu/debian by adding my email address to the MAILTO at the top of the crontab.

 

thanks!

I use Telegram for my notifications for all of my servers and services on them.  Here is the link to one of my backup scripts which utilize it (the whole thread is about creating the backup server):

 

 

41 minutes ago, andrewjs18 said:

hook into the smtp settings

Try this at the command line

/usr/local/emhttp/webGui/scripts/notify

 

8 hours ago, trurl said:

Try this at the command line

/usr/local/emhttp/webGui/scripts/notify

 

 

If I'm understanding you correct, I should have my backup scripts hook into/call that notify script to email me the status of the cronjob runs?

 

Thanks!