I have always accessed the My Servers plugin through the navbar in my server's GUI, and never bothered to bookmark it. Today my server went down again and after some digging, I am confident my USB Flash drive has failed and needs to be replaced. I have periodically downloaded backups from My Servers, so worst case I have a slightly out of date config I can restore, but it would be nice to grab the latest backup from My Server.
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I have been debating parts for weeks now. Below is what I have come up with. It will mainly be used as a Plex server and media storage with a few containers running to support plex/media. I only have 1-2 streams at a time. (only serving the immediate family.) Running this all on a NUC and Synology DS713+ now. Looking to get more storage space. (DS713+ was 2 bay NAS and I was mirroring 8TB drives) I am also looking to add some more 4k content. I don't get the opportunity to build PCs often. Is there anything I missed or could have done better?
===Optional step for secure local access=== If you want to use securehttps for local access to your server as well, navigate to Settings ->Management Access. In the CA-signed certificate area, if there are nowarnings about DNS Rebinding then go ahead and set Use SSL/TLS toStrict. If there are warnings about DNS Rebinding see A noteregarding DNS RebindingProtection.
Note that once SSL is set to Strict, your client computers will needaccess to DNS in order to access your server. This means if yourInternet connection drops you will likely lose access to your server'swebgui. See How to access your server when DNS isdown.
Unraid is a proprietary Linux-based operating system designed to run on home media server setups that operates as a network-attached storage device, application server, and virtualization host. Unraid is proprietary software developed and maintained by Lime Technology, Inc. Users of the software are encouraged to write and use plugins and Docker applications to extend the functionality of their systems.
Unraid uses the Linux kernel and its filesystems. It most notably contains a greatly modified version of Linux md facilities named md_unraid.[4] The source code is distributed as part of the USB system image and is visible in the Unraid OS in /usr/src. binwalk can be used to extract the file from bzroot without booting.
There is another, perhaps even simpler option: you already have an alway-on Linux server. Install rclone, mount or sync your Dropbox folder there, and run duplicacy to backup that folder to backup destination on your unraid.
Neither works. I solved this by downgrading to 6.11.5. Running the older version, the shares can be mapped. Interesting that the server still does not show up as a computer, but accessibility to the shares is all I care about for now. I will wait a bit for another attempt at going back to 6.12.0 and apply the fixes mentioned in this thread.
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I am having lots of problems with running UrBackup in a Docker container on an UnRaid Server.
As info, this is my 5th UrBackup server install, and have not had any issues at all, until now.
However, this IS my first one running as a docker container, which may (or may not) be the entire source of my issues.
I have scoured this forum and many others without any luck on finding a solution, I created an account here so that I can hold my hat in my hand and ask for assistance.
I will add that there are 2 UrBackup docker apps in the UnRaid app store:
1 maintained by Masterwishx, from the uroni/urbackup-server repository
1 maintained by Binhex from the binhex/arch-urbackup repository
A friend of mine has always used Windows Server on their HP rackmount server (I think it's an old DL380 but can't recall for absolute certainty). They are looking to upgrade to a newer (but used) server and want to try and save as much money as they can, so are considering an alternative to Windows Server.
Is there any reason to recommend my friend keeps using Windows Server over something like Unraid or Freenas? I have seen that when using Unraid, should hardware fail in the server you can take the drives out and put them in another server and still have all your data. Not sure if this is the case for Windows Server?
Unraid and FreeNAS are not server operating systems. They are in a nutshell NAS based storage management systems. You could always go open source with some flavor of Linux server based OS, but the learning curve is pretty steep.
The other option would be to just buy Windows Server 2019 essentials but then I've been told because it won't have come with the server, he would need to buy CALS on top of Windows Server 2019 essentials.
I don't know enough about Linux to set up a linux server for them (If there was a good GUI based Linux server distro I could probably figure it out), but have been looking at Unraid and Freenas.
I get that. And something that is basically open source you are exposing yourself to zero or only community based support. Nothing has been researched as far as what the current OS does and what thes open source offerings can do. What roles does the current server hold and can they be replaced and supported?
I have a server that I have just purchased for myself and wouldn't hesitate in spending money on Windows Server for my own businesses needs, but my friend has come to me, asking for advice (knowing my previous job was as a Windows based network engineer), and I said I would look into the options for him.
There are GUI based Linux servers that work well. For instance Karoshi is meant for schools and small businesses. Obviously, you need to experiment and come familiar with it before using it for real. =karoshi Opens a new window
A lot of people would feel if you're starting from zero knowledge of the alternatives, Windows is cheaper in the long run.
If all you need is a file server, then I'd say go for it.
If they need AD, and especially group policy, it's a bit trickier.
When you say folder redirection, it's not an OS redirection but simply file shares that all of the users have access to. The RAID ramifications of your request are the same no matter what OS you use to share the folders, as the safety in redundancy works across OS's. The question as to how to support UNRAID or FreeNAS ( I prefer XigmaNAS or NAS4Free) is also legitimate. How do you exchange a bad drive? Will data be lost if a drive goes bad? Where are you backing it up? Your friend needs to ask and get answers to multiple business questions regarding how important those folder/files are to the business and how much value should he place on them so he can insure them to keep his business running. If file shares are simply what he wants, you can purchase a Synology server and configure it in RAID 1 and have a supported OS.
And to the OP - don't go by the likes of Linus Tech Tips for your tech help. That's the same guy who set up whole-room water cooling and did things like place a water-cooled server directly above several other servers containing mission-critical information.
As above, I have looked at Synology but they would then have to replace their drives too which would much more costly (plus a Synology rackmount 8 bay nas would cost about the same on its own as the cost of Windows server 2019 and 4 user CALs.
This is absolutely not true. FreeNAS has a support option. Also there are many consultants and consulting firms that offer support for many open source products. I make some good money doing this.
However, the rest of your comment is valid. A good assessment of needs is important.
Now, I do not know unraid well, but I do know XigmaNAS (a fork of FreeNAS) very well. Is is a fastistic file share. Has built in snapshots as well, which is handy. It can boot from a USB stick, and I have pulled all the drives from a failed server and hooked them up to a laptop with USB to SATA adapters and had the data up and accessible in less than a half hour. SLOOOOOOWWW, but up!
It can do Active Directory in a very limited fashion. Forget about GPOs and other functionality. But if they are only using it to login on and off, it will do that.
First off, apologies if this has already been written about. Most of my searches are dominated by using rclone ON an unraid server. However, this post is specifically about using an unraid server as an rclone backend (so other servers can sync to it).
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