jbrodriguez Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 (edited) Introduction unbalanced is a plugin to transfer files/folders between disks in your array. Support Fund If you wish to do so, learn how to sponsor the developer. Description unbalanced helps you manage space in your Unraid array, via two operating modes: Scatter Transfer data out of a disk, into one or more disks Gather Consolidate data from a user share into a single disk It's versatile and can serve multiple purposes, based on your needs. Some of the use cases are: Empty a disk, in order to change filesystems (read kizer's example) Move all seasons of a tv show into a single disk Move a specific folder from a disk to another disk Split your movies/tv shows/games folder from a disk to other disks You'll likely come up with other scenarios as you play around with it. Installation - Apps Tab (Community Application) Go to the Apps tab Click on the Plugins button (the last one) Look for unbalanced Click Install Running the plugin After installing the plugin, you can access the web UI, via the following methods: - Method 1 Go to Settings > Utilities Click on unbalanced Click on Open Web UI - Method 2<br/> Go to Plugins > Installed Plugins Click on unbalanced Click on Open Web UI - Method 3<br/> Navigate with your browser to http://Tower:7090/ (replace Tower with the address/name of your unRAID server)<br/> Check the github page for additional documentation Changelog The full changelog can be found here Edited June 11 by jbrodriguez unbalanced release 4 4 5 Quote Link to comment
StanC Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Just tried to install this and it comes up as a bad file. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I've decided to distribute unBALANCE as a plugin rather than a docker. The main reason is to have better access to unRAID's filesystem, something that is more difficult with Docker (you'd have to mount a lot of volumes and even then, some features would have some issues). Not that I am against this being released as a plugin, but surely if you had it as a docker with /mnt internally mapped to /mnt externally (and possibly a mapping for /boot) you would have full access to all the physical media? Having said that since it is basically a script it does not have the sort of dependency issues that are the main reason for NOT installing some apps as a plugin. It therefore does not put system stability at risk. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 I've decided to distribute unBALANCE as a plugin rather than a docker. The main reason is to have better access to unRAID's filesystem, something that is more difficult with Docker (you'd have to mount a lot of volumes and even then, some features would have some issues). Not that I am against this being released as a plugin, but surely if you had it as a docker with /mnt internally mapped to /mnt externally (and possibly a mapping for /boot) you would have full access to all the physical media? Having said that since it is basically a script it does not have the sort of dependency issues that are the main reason for NOT installing some apps as a plugin. It therefore does not put system stability at risk. IMHO, I always questioned why unBalance was a docker in the first place. To me, the function that it performs is philosophically (for lack of a better word) a plugin type rather than a docker. Quote Link to comment
danioj Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I have just tried to install the unBALANCE plugin on my Main unRAID server both manually and via CA and unfortunately the installation failed. The error I just captured from CA is: plugin: bad file MD5: /boot/config/plugins/unbalance/unbalance-1.2.11.tgz Looking forward to using the plugin when I can. Looks excellent. Quote Link to comment
Waseh Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I have just tried to install the unBALANCE plugin on my Main unRAID server both manually and via CA and unfortunately the installation failed. The error I just captured from CA is: plugin: bad file MD5: /boot/config/plugins/unbalance/unbalance-1.2.11.tgz Looking forward to using the plugin when I can. Looks excellent. Getting the same error Quote Link to comment
flamegrilled Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 plugin: bad file MD5: /boot/config/plugins/unbalance/unbalance-1.2.11.tgz Quote Link to comment
jbrodriguez Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 I didn't actually release 1.2.11 in github, that's the reason for the error ( I was testing the md5 check ). I've published it and it installs correctly now. I'm also creating a page to be able to access the UI from unRAID's interface (just a link to the url for unBALANCE). Quote Link to comment
jbrodriguez Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 I've decided to distribute unBALANCE as a plugin rather than a docker. The main reason is to have better access to unRAID's filesystem, something that is more difficult with Docker (you'd have to mount a lot of volumes and even then, some features would have some issues). Not that I am against this being released as a plugin, but surely if you had it as a docker with /mnt internally mapped to /mnt externally (and possibly a mapping for /boot) you would have full access to all the physical media? Having said that since it is basically a script it does not have the sort of dependency issues that are the main reason for NOT installing some apps as a plugin. It therefore does not put system stability at risk. IMHO, I always questioned why unBalance was a docker in the first place. To me, the function that it performs is philosophically (for lack of a better word) a plugin type rather than a docker. itimpi, To use unRAID's notification system from within a Docker, I'd have needed to mount /usr/local, then probably somewhere in /etc, in addition to /mnt, /boot and others like you mentioned. And even so, there was the issue of Docker volume mapping behaviour: - It didn't recognize when a disk was formatted or recently installed. - It didn't recognize Apple Time Machine backups At the end of the day, either Docker or plugin is just a distribution mechanism. It is easier to create a docker over a plugin, but not by that much. It has to do with docker being more documented. With CA, the difference between them becomes really blurry. You also mentioned something very important. unBALANCE is just a standalone binary that exposes an API interface, it has no dependencies that could bloat the base system. Quote Link to comment
Ashe Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Where can you access the settings? I've checked the usual places. Quote Link to comment
adammerkley Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Installed plugin. All user shares disappeared from the Shares tab. Rebooted and they were still gone. Uninstalled plugin and rebooted and they came back. Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Installed plugin. All user shares disappeared from the Shares tab. Rebooted and they were still gone. Uninstalled plugin and rebooted and they came back. Strange.. They are still there for me. Quote Link to comment
flamegrilled Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I installed unbalance plugin .I get nothing on http://IP:6237/ Quote Link to comment
jbrodriguez Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 I've uploaded version 1.2.12. I'm still learning how the plugin system works, so please bear with me for the next few days I've added the settings page, but it's not fully working yet. I'll keep looking into it. For now, stop/start the array to get the app running, then go to http://IP:6237/ Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 I've uploaded version 1.2.12. I'm still learning how the plugin system works, so please bear with me for the next few days I've added the settings page, but it's not fully working yet. I'll keep looking into it. For now, stop/start the array to get the app running, then go to http://IP:6237/ your unbalance.page is trying to put the icon on the UserUtilities menu. It should actually be Utilities (That reference tells dynamix to find the Utilities.page file which is an OS file and put the icon there. Once that's fixed, then you've got an issue with the size of the icon. (The icons displayed by dynamix aren't resized automatically and have to be the correct size (I believe 48x48). Note that this is the local version of the icon. The URL you use in the template for CA can be any size (as it resizes everything to 96x96) Quote Link to comment
jamescarlos Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Installed unBALANCE 1.2.12 on unRAID 6.1.6 and it installs, but can't seem to get it to run when visiting <serverIP>:6237. Screenshot of the plugin page: Nothing that I can see in the logs. Quote Link to comment
StanC Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Installed unBALANCE 1.2.12 on unRAID 6.1.6 and it installs, but can't seem to get it to run when visiting <serverIP>:6237. Screenshot of the plugin page: Nothing that I can see in the logs. I get the same results. ... For now, stop/start the array to get the app running, then go to http://IP:6237/ This still does not resolve. I have even tried a reboot, same results. Removing plug-in for now. Quote Link to comment
jbrodriguez Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 I've uploaded version 1.2.12. I'm still learning how the plugin system works, so please bear with me for the next few days I've added the settings page, but it's not fully working yet. I'll keep looking into it. For now, stop/start the array to get the app running, then go to http://IP:6237/ your unbalance.page is trying to put the icon on the UserUtilities menu. It should actually be Utilities (That reference tells dynamix to find the Utilities.page file which is an OS file and put the icon there. Once that's fixed, then you've got an issue with the size of the icon. (The icons displayed by dynamix aren't resized automatically and have to be the correct size (I believe 48x48). Note that this is the local version of the icon. The URL you use in the template for CA can be any size (as it resizes everything to 96x96) Thank you Squid, yeah ... that was part of the problem Quote Link to comment
jbrodriguez Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 Ok, I think I solved the UI and startup issues with version 1.2.14. Let me know of any issues. Quote Link to comment
jamescarlos Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Nice work lboregard! I'll test moving some data around. The icon sizing needs some work though: Quote Link to comment
jbrodriguez Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 Nice work lboregard! I'll test moving some data around. The icon sizing needs some work though: Thanks jamescarlos ! As for the icon size, I thought I had _specifically_ solved that issue Is it possible that your browser is reading the old copy of the image (it was that big before). Can you try a hard refresh (Cmd + R on a Mac, I think it's Ctrl + R on Windows), and let me know if that solves it ? Quote Link to comment
jamescarlos Posted January 9, 2016 Share Posted January 9, 2016 Nice work lboregard! I'll test moving some data around. The icon sizing needs some work though: Thanks jamescarlos ! As for the icon size, I thought I had _specifically_ solved that issue Is it possible that your browser is reading the old copy of the image (it was that big before). Can you try a hard refresh (Cmd + R on a Mac, I think it's Ctrl + R on Windows), and let me know if that solves it ? Indeed, it was Chrome that was caching the previous icon. Looks splendid now! Quote Link to comment
jbrodriguez Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 ... Indeed, it was Chrome that was caching the previous icon. Looks splendid now! Good ! In addition to Squid, I'd like to thank dlandon (powerdown) and dmacias (shellinabox), from who I shamelessly stole plugin code to make it work Quote Link to comment
danioj Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Has anyone tried this Plugin since it was in fact moved to a Plugin from a Docker? Just not sure if we are treating this as a BETA Plugin or if it is good to go to use in a Production env? Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I'm running it at the moment, evacuating a 3TB Red that's sounding very ill. I'll let you know the results. Quote Link to comment
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