chris_b_chicken

OK that's what it looked like to me, would this go away with a reformat of the cache drive or are there hardware problems too?

Hey guys, I'm at kind of a loss as to what's going on with my docker containers (and VMs for that matter) so I thought I would reach out and see if anyone has any thoughts on the subject. I first noticed this when the Fix Common Problems plugin told me it couldn't write to the docker.img file, then when I looked into the system logs, I get a lot of BTRFS file system errors that results in the dockers going down and being generally unusable. This also shuts down my VM. At first, I thought it was a weird fluke, so I deleted docker.img, recreated it, downloaded all of my containers again, and then everything was fine for a day. I've also tried reformatting my cache drive to XFS and then back to BTRFS, as I (like most) use my cache SSD to run my VMs, dockers, and anything written to my other shares (temporarily for a day until it's offloaded to the array around 1 AM every night). This, again, worked for a day, and then doesn't now. And now I'm truly baffled as to why I'm still getting BTRFS errors as my docker.img file is currently formatted as an XFS vdisk. However it seems like every day this corruption sets in, so that I either get the error from Fix Common Problems, or I go to access one of my dockers, find it's unavailable, and then I look at the log and see the BTRFS errors again. I don't lose any docker container data in /mnt/user (or cache)/appdata, and my VM's vdisk is still intact, so I don't know what's going on. I'm starting to think it might be the SSD itself getting on in life (I've had it for a few years now), but the SMART reports are all coming back OK. So this is completely new territory for me. Anyway, I've posted my diagnostics, if there's anyone out there who knows a bit more than me on this topic, I would appreciate the help, even if it means I have to buy a new SSD. I'm sure I've left out a few important details, so if you have any questions about my setup, let me know. unraid-diagnostics-20210319-1433.zip

I can't get the Web UI to pull up, but my PIA VPN is working normally via Privoxy. I checked the logs for the Docker and everything seems to be in order. I then looked at qBittorrent's logs and it said that it wasn't able to map a port via uPnP. The only thing different about my setup vs. last week is that I just upgraded my router to a box running pfSense over the weekend and I didn't have uPnP enabled on it like it was with my previous router, so I enabled that. Now the qBittorrent logs look good, it even added a torrent from Sonarr per the log, but I still can't pull up the Web UI. I'm at kind of a loss here. It could be some other setting within pfSense that I'm unaware of, hopefully there's another power user here with a bit more familiarity with pfSense and this docker that could help me out. If there's any kind of log or anything that would help to post, let me know. Edit: I ended up using binhex's privoxy VPN docker to route the traffic through and used linuxserver's qbittorent docker as I couldn't get binhex's rtorrent or deluge dockers to work either. I'm sure it's something specific to my setup, but at least I'm up and running again.

Thanks, this is what I was looking for.

I've been an unRAID user for about 8 months or so and I'm loving it so far. I would say my only (totally minor) gripe is related to the main onboard console. While I run it headless most of the time and use the web interface, I have the VGA coming off of my server hooked up to one of my monitors that I primarily use the DVI port on for my daily driver desktop. It is nice to occasionally plop down in right in front of the main console and make changes directly rather than SSH'ing in or using the web terminal, maybe I'm weird this way. But for whatever reason its appearance doesn't seem to be consistent with every boot (usually in terms of the resolution used, and very rarely it's totally red in appearance). Also, if I accidentally leave this monitor on, the monitor will stay on perpetually with the console text instead of going to sleep at some point, I get why and it's more my fault than anything. So my question is twofold: 1) Is it possible to change some config file somewhere to change the appearance of the console so that it has consistent colors/resolution on every boot? (this is what I'm really interested in) 2) Is it possible to have the screen blank out on the console if there hasn't been any activity in X minutes (like a screensaver)? I'm doubting this one is possible because it's just a console not a GUI, but maybe someone has a magic solution for this out there somewhere. Thanks in advance!

Sorry for my delayed response, but Codeh's fix also worked for me, just needed to change to https:// with a security exception. Thanks!

I'm having an interesting issue - I've run unBalance a few times on my main server and it's worked great, but I'm setting up a new server for a friend and I can't get it to run - all I get is the attached screenshot when I try to pull up the UI - any thoughts? I'm trying to access this on my Mac, but I get the same result on Ubuntu as well (Firefox both times).

Thank you both for the input. I guess I'm more of a noob than I thought These servers will initially be set up on the same network, so I think in the long run it'll be best if I just do it from scratch and use my server's settings a baseline rather than try to directly copy anything (besides media files on my shares), even if it takes me a bit longer.

Ok, thanks for the info!

So I would either have to configure everything from scratch with a trial key, or have him pay for a license and then I could copy over my config to his licensed flash drive? Does the level of license have to be the same (ie I have Pro but he'll probably only want Plus or Basic)?

I've been using unRAID Pro for a few months now and I love it - I've been talking it up with another tech savvy friend and he wants to duplicate my set up on his hardware. I don't feel like I'm an expert yet, so I thought I'd post here and find out what the easiest/best way to clone my system would be, then I can get him a license key and then tweak his specific set up from there. I was thinking something like this: - Copy all files on flash drive to new flash drive except my license key - Run the make bootable script on new flash drive - Boot into unRAID on new server - get a trial key - start up array with his disks - Tweak shares if necessary - Copy over docker/VM images and app data and bring them online - Tweak everything else from there Does that sound about right or did I miss something? Thanks!

I actually couldn't find any 6 or 8 core Xeon processors in the 1151 socket. Maybe I'm totally looking in the wrong places, but I would be totally open to an 1151 motherboard and processor if it had at least six cores (my daily driver is a 4 core Skylake i7 6700k). I ended up on 2011v3 after looking at various passmark scores / price and performance scores for 6+core Xeons. It's good that my build is a little bit overkill, because I'm not exactly sure what I want to do in terms of VMs and dockers, so I wanted to leave extra headroom to expand. Unless some things change pretty significantly in the next two months, I think that might be what I end up with. Thanks for the info on write caching, when I was initially doing research on unRAID, a lot of the complaints that I saw were on slow write speeds, but it's probably because I was reading some older articles. It sounds like I may use my 500 gig SSD as the application / VM drive for sure and then I guess I'll know more when I get the hardware and test it out to see if I need/want write caching. I did look at some Lian-Li cases, but none of them jumped out initially. Interestingly enough, my current 'ghetto' server is in a PC-Q28 miniITX box from them. I liked the Node 804 because it had a ton of hard drive slots, but I'm not sold on it. What would be some good options for a case that either has hot swapping (either external or internal) built in or could be easily/cheaply added? Does Lian-Li have a good option? Thanks again for responding to my post, your input has been really valuable!

Hey everyone - I'm new to unRAID so hopefully I'm not asking about super stupid things. I'd appreciate any tips from those who've used unRAID for a while. I have a home 'server' that I'm looking to upgrade/replace. It's running on an old Atom processor from 2010 with Win 7 and 5 TB of storage because I am literally only using it as a file server, with zero bells and whistles. Obviously it's not a powerhouse and I want to get into something more substantial. It would still mostly be a home media server, backup server for documents and disk images from my family's other computers, but I also want to run a few VMs and not run out of computing power. Here is what I've cobbled together so far for a custom build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/chris_b_chicken/saved/ddzf8d Here's what I plan to do with this new computer: Have a fair amount of storage. I'm not 'data hoarder' level, but I still want more than your typical computer user, something in the neighborhood of 20-40 TB with 6-8 TB individual drives making up the pool. I haven't decided on how to structure that quite yet. I'll also have a cache SSD to help with some of the slower write speeds I've read about. Run a lightweight Linux VM 24/7 (probably with a manually started GUI if I need to update it because I'm a noob). It'll probably run Debian/Lubuntu. This is primarily going to be for Pi-Hole to block ads on a whole network level, plus it would just be a general Linux sandbox. Pi-Hole can run on a Raspberry Pi, so it doesn't need much in terms of specs. I may have additional lightweight web servers (CLI only for these) for my personal dev projects, but nothing requiring huge processing power (e.g. not an ecommerce site with tons of customer transactions writing to a DB). Have a few random VMs that I would spin up from time to time to do random things, but they'd mostly be off: A Windows VM to convert/encode/transcode videos/burn DVDs/compile code/do random tedious or boring crap when I don't want to tie up my main workstation. Some decent performance would be nice, but I don't necessarily need to replicate a brand new Core i7 workstation in a VM. Run older Windows versions (XP, 98, etc) to possibly run some old legacy games. I don't even know if this is possible, I haven't done a ton of research here. I have a separate rig for modern Win 10 gaming, so it wouldn't be on that crazy of a level needing a maxed out GPU, etc. I'll probably run a few dockers (like Sonarr, Radarr), but I'm a total newbie, so I don't know what the full extent of that would be beyond those two. I am not planning to use Plex in any way (all my set top boxes run Kodi and play files natively), so having cores/threads available for the Plex docker to transcode with isn't necessary. Constraints/comments: I have some cash saved, but I don't want to break $3,000 (including storage) if I can avoid it. I had about $1,000 worth of mechanical drives saved on the parts list, but I'm still trying to figure out what I need, so I left them off that list. I'm going to use an 850 EVO SSD from my desktop for a cache drive and replace that one in my desktop with an M.2 drive, so I'm excluding that SSD from the budget for the server. So whatever's in the parts list + mechanical storage is my budget. My wife doesn't want a huge server rack in our apartment, so a traditional rack/rails set up is out. I'm sticking to a ATX/microATX box at the largest. I really like the Fractal Node 804 for the amount of 3.5" drive bays, and small size, so I set up my build around that. Hot swap is not important to me (for now), so leaving them fixed internally is fine. I picked up a few extra fans for it to keep the drives cool. I looked at Ryzen initially simply because of the core count for VM possibilities, but the motherboards seem to suck for server-like purposes (I'm hoping for 8-ish SATA3 ports without having to get an HBA card, I'd also love 2 NICs, but that's not a deal-breaker, I don't need sound or wifi and all of the Ryzen boards have sound, etc.), plus the forums seem to be full of people having issues with Ryzen, so I'm wary of it even though it's way cheaper price/performance wise. That said, I'm not getting the computer until Christmas, so if it's anticipated that the Ryzen problems will be cleared up before then, I may move to Ryzen (probably the 1700X). One thing that keeps pushing back to Xeon is IPMI, but considering I'm going to run this thing headless at my desk most of the time, I'm fine with using unRAID's web interface for the most part, plus VNC/RDP/Teamviewer for the VMs. I'm not going to complain if I have to hook up a keyboard/mouse/monitor to update the BIOS once in a while, so losing IPMI is not a dealbreaker. Just my thoughts on it. Anyway, actual questions: Is the 6 core Xeon in my part list (link above) not good enough/too good for my use case? If it's not a good fit, what would be? 32 GB of RAM adequate/overkill? I run 16 GB in my desktop computer - haven't needed more than 8 GB when I'm heavily gaming and browsing the web, so 32 GB may be overkill, but I don't mind 'future proofing' a bit. Is the 650 W power supply OK (with the drives I originally spec'd it was projected to draw ~340 W) for potential drive addition later on? Any other suggestions/comments you guys have for a newbie? Thanks for helping me out! I've done a bunch of googling, and every post I read either wants to heavily game or just use unRAID for storage + dockers so I'm just curious what the specs for my 'middle of the road' use case would be.