found a bug with the program  not sure if its a bug or a setting  its just happened to me of if it does  

i have 6 disks and had a music folder across them all..    and i used the unbalance to move  all the music  to 1 drive so all the drives arent spinning and parity  to play music...

but i noticed when i accessing the music files all the drives spun up.. and Fix Common issues didnt find an error.

for the share Music i say  Include Disk 6...  but i noticed in krusader.. all the Drives still had  "Music" folder    so it spins up the drive

 

so when its Moving the Files off all the Disks'   it isn't deleting  Folder Music  on the other 5 data drives  so i manually had to delete it.. not sure if there is a setting in unbalance to delete the folder  or that its a linux thing when you move doesnt delete the folder..  but just noticed it..

 

not sure if i did something wrong in the settings etc

 

Edited September 25, 20205 yr by comet424

21 hours ago, comet424 said:

so when its Moving the Files off all the Disks'   it isn't deleting  Folder Music  on the other 5 data drives

If Music was a top-level folder (share), per design, the app doesn't delete it.

Hello!

 

I get these errors when planning a move -

if I run the docker safe new permissions then that should fix my issues?  Any issues I can foresee?  I'm trying to move files so I can format data drives but don't want to lose any information.

 

unBALANCE currently runs as root, so you shouldn't have problems moving files around, specifically with regards to user ownership.

23 hours ago, jbrodriguez said:

If Music was a top-level folder (share), per design, the app doesn't delete it.

ah ok  so then you have to manually go in and delete all the references of the share..  

since i set in shares   Only Drive 6 for Music no other drives..  

 

good to know 🙂

thanks

 

17 hours ago, jbrodriguez said:

unBALANCE currently runs as root, so you shouldn't have problems moving files around, specifically with regards to user ownership.

Ok if I run newperms but exclude the appdata share (because of the warning) everything should be fine, right?

It may not since it doesn't alter special bits (set group or id) , but this might work to clear those on directories: chmod 0777 

1 hour ago, cbr600ds2 said:

Ok if I run newperms but exclude the appdata share (because of the warning) everything should be fine, right?

Ran it, no errors but unbalance is giving me the same warning/error

It should work, the message is mostly a warning, it had more meaning when unbalance ran as nobody, as root you shouldn't have issues.

14 minutes ago, jbrodriguez said:

It should work, the message is mostly a warning, it had more meaning when unbalance ran as nobody, as root you shouldn't have issues.

Oh ok.  thanks! 

Would it be possible to update the plugin to support the Unraid 6.9 version with multiple cache pools?

Thank you.

9 hours ago, FlorinB said:

Would it be possible to update the plugin to support the Unraid 6.9 version with multiple cache pools?

Thank you.

Since the cache pools are nothing to do with ubBalance as it works on the array drives, what makes you think it needs an update for Unraid 6.9.0?

 

I enabled the server, and still can't start unBALANCE, and where is the web link? 

On 10/1/2020 at 7:59 AM, itimpi said:

Since the cache pools are nothing to do with ubBalance as it works on the array drives, what makes you think it needs an update for Unraid 6.9.0?

With multiple pools I am seeing this as multiple "cache" drives. Since the Mover is able to move the data from the pools to Array, it will be helfpul (at least for me) to use the unBalance as well for Scatter & Gather the data between Array and pools.

On 10/8/2020 at 10:44 AM, oiio said:

 

I enabled the server, and still can't start unBALANCE, and where is the web link? 

You clicked done after switching it to yes?  The link will show up above the unBalance v5.6.3.

 

 

On 10/10/2020 at 6:26 AM, cbr600ds2 said:

You clicked done after switching it to yes?  The link will show up above the unBalance v5.6.3.

 

 

yes, and nothing happened. The page is till the same...

13 minutes ago, oiio said:

yes, and nothing happened. The page is till the same...

The green is the link.  when you switched it to yes did the apply button light up?  

3 minutes ago, cbr600ds2 said:

The green is the link.  when you switched it to yes did the apply button light up?  

After I clicked the DONE button, the page jumped to the SETTINGS page. And I re-opened the UNbalance, nothing happened, didn't see that green link..

2 minutes ago, oiio said:

After I clicked the DONE button, the page jumped to the SETTINGS page. And I re-opened the UNbalance, nothing happened, didn't see that green link..

You have to click apply to get it running...

Try running unbalance from the command line, to check for any error

 

/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unbalance/unbalance -port 6237

 

2 hours ago, jbrodriguez said:

Try running unbalance from the command line, to check for any error

 

/usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unbalance/unbalance -port 6237

 

Hate to be one of those guys, but noticed that mine wouldn't start either, so I've just run the above and got...

 

configuration variable provided but not defined: notifyCalc
Usage of /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unbalance/unbalance:
  -apiFolders="/var/local/emhttp": folders to look for api endpoints
  -checkForUpdate=1: checkForUpdate: 0 - dont' check; 1 (default) - check
  -config="/boot/config/plugins/unbalance/unbalance.conf": config location
  -dryRun=true: perform a dry-run rather than actual work
  -folders="": deprecated - do not use
  -logdir="/boot/logs": pathname where log file will be written to
  -notifyPlan=0: notify via email after plan operation has completed (unraid notifications must be set up first): 0 - No notifications; 1 - Simple notifications; 2 - Detailed notifications
  -notifyTransfer=0: notify via email after transfer operation has completed (unraid notifications must be set up first): 0 - No notifications; 1 - Simple notifications; 2 - Detailed notifications
  -port="6237": port to run the server
  -refreshRate=250: how often to refresh the ui while running a command (in milliseconds)
  -reservedAmount=512: Minimun Amount of space to reserve
  -reservedUnit="Mb": Reserved Amount unit: Mb, Gb or %
  -rsyncArgs="-X": custom rsync arguments
  -verbosity=0: include rsync output in log files: 0 (default) - include; 1 - do not include
2020/10/12 19:19:33 Unable to start the app: configuration variable provided but not defined: notifyCalc

 

1 hour ago, Cessquill said:

noticed that mine wouldn't start either, so I've just run the above and got...

This has to do with the configuration file /boot/config/plugins/unbalance/unbalance.conf

 

You can remove the notifyCalc line (or any other if you still get an error), or ... delete the config file altogether.

12 hours ago, jbrodriguez said:

This has to do with the configuration file /boot/config/plugins/unbalance/unbalance.conf

 

You can remove the notifyCalc line (or any other if you still get an error), or ... delete the config file altogether.

Thank you!  renamed the file unbalance_old.conf and it started up fine.

On 10/9/2020 at 8:33 AM, FlorinB said:

With multiple pools I am seeing this as multiple "cache" drives. Since the Mover is able to move the data from the pools to Array, it will be helfpul (at least for me) to use the unBalance as well for Scatter & Gather the data between Array and pools.

I would like this one too. I need to move from one cache pool to another. I prefer to not use rsync if I could.

I have my Unraid running with 12 total data drives of varying sizes.  One of my drives recently started giving me a bunch of errors saying it cannot write to disk, and the smart tests don't look so great.  I can't replace the drive right now due to cost, but I have enough free space on the array to get rid of it.  

My question is: Can I pull the drive, let it run emulated and use unbalance to scatter the data to the rest of my array?  Then i would just reconfig without that drive.

 

thanks,