Hello fellow UnRaiders,

 

My name is David and  have finished the install of UnRaid 6.1.9 Pro on a new server. I have had a friend at work nagging me to set one up and move my files from the 2 external 4TB USB3 drives, which I have had to replace one last year with complete loss of data, sad day that was.  I am starting small only 8TB of space but will grow the system in the near future.

 

What made me go with UnRaid, it was the features of plugins and Dockers. I have finished the install of Sonarr and SABnzdb and got them running tonight. Not as hard as I thought, but it works after getting the directories figured out.

 

This system is great and can't wait for future growth. The one thing I would like is to see multiple disk arrays on the same system, this would give the ability to have backups and images of the main array reside on a separate array.

 

Well, I have lots of data to move and thanks to all that have helped in this endeavor.

 

Thanks

David

 

 

Hello fellow UnRaiders,

 

My name is David and  have finished the install of UnRaid 6.1.9 Pro on a new server. I have had a friend at work nagging me to set one up and move my files from the 2 external 4TB USB3 drives, which I have had to replace one last year with complete loss of data, sad day that was.  I am starting small only 8TB of space but will grow the system in the near future.

 

What made me go with UnRaid, it was the features of plugins and Dockers. I have finished the install of Sonarr and SABnzdb and got them running tonight. Not as hard as I thought, but it works after getting the directories figured out.

 

This system is great and can't wait for future growth. The one thing I would like is to see multiple disk arrays on the same system, this would give the ability to have backups and images of the main array reside on a separate array.

 

Well, I have lots of data to move and thanks to all that have helped in this endeavor.

 

Thanks

David

 

Hi and welcome !

 

One little remark with respect to the multiple arrays in the same system.

 

Mostly this is done because with traditional raid solutions the loss of 2 disks (sometimes more) can lead to loss of all data in the array, they array becomes "useless" whenever a specific numer of drives has failed.

 

This is not the case with unraid. All your disks but one can fail and that will still mean that that -one- disk is readable (because the disks are all using a regular filesystem and individual files are not "split" over several disks.

 

This actually means that multiple arrays in the same server are of no real use.

 

First of all you can add two parity disks meaning that any -2- disks can fail at the same time without -any- data loss.

 

When you are worried about dataloss "in the same box" (the reason you were looking for a second array in the same system I suspect) then you can easily just copy the data you want duplicated to another disk in the same array, the net-effect of that will be the same as in your multiple-array scenario.

 

If you are worried about data loss however then having multiple copies of the same file in the same server is only a (small) part of the total solution.. You should actually look at:

 

- storing your backup files on a different piece of hardware;

- make sure that hardware is in another location (not at your house);

- if possible same it on another filesystem;

- make sure you have something with versioning helping you with ransomware attacks

- make sure your backups cannot be touched by ransomware.

 

You could do this (not by accident what I did ;-)

 

- secundary system at my parents in law house;

- main system uses btrfs as filesystem, secondary filesystem on xfs

- secondary system has no writable shares

- secondary system has a crashplan client running receiving all of my backups