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H110Hawk
Dec 28, 2006


The Milkman posted:

How worried do I need to be about this?
It's part of a 6 disk RAID Z2





The technical term for that disks state is "fucked"

The Milkman
Jun 22, 2003

No one here is alone,
satellites in every home


Lipstick Apathy

H110Hawk posted:

The technical term for that disks state is "fucked"

Fair enough. Funny, that's one of my Reds. I'd have expected them to outlive the older, cheapo Toshibas in there.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Yeah I wouldn't trust that disk at all anymore.

cliffy
Apr 12, 2002



Any chance of new year's sales on easystores or other large capacity drives?

Eletriarnation
Apr 6, 2005

People don't appreciate the substance of things...
objects in space.



Oven Wrangler

pgroce posted:

Getting around to replacing the motherboard in my FreeNAS server since the last one seems to have died. My existing drives are SATA, and I'd like the headroom to run some Docker images (home network services, specifically Emby and Logitech Media Server). My price point is <$1000, ideally a lot less.

Any recommendations?

My NAS runs CentOS on an X8SIL-F with X3440, a combo which would have no problem with Docker etc. and is closer to $50 than $100; even with 2x4GB of ECC DDR3 added in you're looking at under $100 total. What kind of motherboard are you replacing that you're thinking about $1000 as a reference point? I assume there's a particular processor that still works and you intend to use it again, which will definitely be important to consider.

Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Dec 31, 2018

necrobobsledder
Mar 21, 2005
Lay down your soul to the gods rock 'n roll

Nap Ghost

The only kinds of motherboards I've seen get over $400 are some crazy dumb gamer / overclocking boards and multi-socket behemoths meant for HPC or high density setups. Heck, even a Xeon D 2123IT series motherboard combo is $550+ and that's a really solid board while a Xeon-D 2183IT completely spanks every other consumer or prosumer CPU for performance/TDP while at a $1700+ pricepoint.

cliffy posted:

Any chance of new year's sales on easystores or other large capacity drives?
Easystore sales were better toward the end of the year last year but if you don't need a new drive desperately, I'd wait for the next sale that happens every few months anyway. I had a drive go bad and waited for a while on an RMA while my RAIDZ2 sat in a degraded state and in that time the 8TB Easystores went back down to $130 so I scooped up an extra so I wouldn't have to wait for the return (WD really messed up and lost the drive they sent back, my first bad RMA experience with them out of 5+ drives over 10 years). I had a different degraded drive when I had no spare around and I spent $160 knowing it could go lower. Drive prices are kind of stable at the high capacity range now and for a good while so whatever discount you can get should be scooped up if you have an interest.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





cliffy posted:

Any chance of new year's sales on easystores or other large capacity drives?

Best Buy has 10TB Easystores for $180 right now.

Harik
Sep 9, 2001

From the hard streets of Moscow
First dog to touch the stars




Plaster Town Cop

The 8 went down to 170 which makes the 10 a no-brainer right now if you need the space.

What's the low-end of the 10s? I know 8s go as low as $140, usually $150 on sales.

G-Prime
Apr 30, 2003

Baby, when it's love,
if it's not rough it isn't fun.


8tb has gone to $130 a few times before. 10s at $180 are the lowest so far. I'm really hoping I can hold out a few more months and see them drop even lower, personally.

pgroce
Oct 24, 2002


Eletriarnation posted:

My NAS runs CentOS on an X8SIL-F with X3440, a combo which would have no problem with Docker etc. and is closer to $50 than $100; even with 2x4GB of ECC DDR3 added in you're looking at under $100 total. What kind of motherboard are you replacing that you're thinking about $1000 as a reference point? I assume there's a particular processor that still works and you intend to use it again, which will definitely be important to consider.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The motherboard is what died, but I'm planning to replace the MB, CPU and RAM. That's probably still way under $1k, but budget-wise that's what I can spare. I'm really just looking for sweet-spot recommendations on either CPU/motherboard combos or SoC boards with lots of SATA ports and enough CPU/RAM for running some Docker images of media apps. (I didn't mention in my first post, but I'd like to transcode on the server.)

I'd normally just check the OP, but it's old, and I couldn't adapt anything from the last few pages.

I don't remember what's in the current system, probably an i3 or i5 from years back. I'll crack it open and look if it makes a difference, but the only thing I care about keeping are the drives.

Should I just pick up a low-end Xeon and a needs-suiting motherboard then? Any particular recommendations? Thanks for any help!

derk
Sep 24, 2004


pgroce posted:

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The motherboard is what died, but I'm planning to replace the MB, CPU and RAM. That's probably still way under $1k, but budget-wise that's what I can spare. I'm really just looking for sweet-spot recommendations on either CPU/motherboard combos or SoC boards with lots of SATA ports and enough CPU/RAM for running some Docker images of media apps. (I didn't mention in my first post, but I'd like to transcode on the server.)

I'd normally just check the OP, but it's old, and I couldn't adapt anything from the last few pages.

I don't remember what's in the current system, probably an i3 or i5 from years back. I'll crack it open and look if it makes a difference, but the only thing I care about keeping are the drives.

Should I just pick up a low-end Xeon and a needs-suiting motherboard then? Any particular recommendations? Thanks for any help!

Here is my system
16GB ECC Ram and just 2x4tb drives, looking to expand to 4x4tb drives in the near future as my current setup is around <500GB free space. But this system is more than enough to transcode with literally no impact to performance. I run Plex, rtorrent+rutorrent, sonarr, nzbget. This thing just chugs along, 24/7/365. I run ubuntu server 18.04 LTS. The cpu does hardware transcoding, and it spikes to like 4% usage when that happens. I got a smoking deal, I got this system for $150 used from a buddy, but you can find this system for around $500 last I checked up to $1,000.

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System Information
        Manufacturer: LENOVO
        Version: ThinkStation E31
Version: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1245 V2 @ 3.40GHz

Eletriarnation
Apr 6, 2005

People don't appreciate the substance of things...
objects in space.



Oven Wrangler

pgroce posted:

Sorry, I wasn't clear. The motherboard is what died, but I'm planning to replace the MB, CPU and RAM. That's probably still way under $1k, but budget-wise that's what I can spare. I'm really just looking for sweet-spot recommendations on either CPU/motherboard combos or SoC boards with lots of SATA ports and enough CPU/RAM for running some Docker images of media apps. (I didn't mention in my first post, but I'd like to transcode on the server.)

I'd normally just check the OP, but it's old, and I couldn't adapt anything from the last few pages.

I don't remember what's in the current system, probably an i3 or i5 from years back. I'll crack it open and look if it makes a difference, but the only thing I care about keeping are the drives.

Should I just pick up a low-end Xeon and a needs-suiting motherboard then? Any particular recommendations? Thanks for any help!

The X3440 I mentioned is basically just a slow 1st-gen i7 (same feature set+ECC, but the i7-860 is 533MHz faster) and I consider it to be kind of a sweet spot, since it's already about as cheap as you can get and Core 2 is a big step down in multiple ways. Power consumption is fairly low; mine uses 50-55W with four 3.5" disks spinning, and probably less than 30 with no disks.

32GB memory is easily done on the X8SIL using registered memory if you want, though I've been fine with 8 since I'm hosting VMs elsewhere. There are 6 SATA ports onboard and though they are only SATA 2 you'd be unlikely to notice a difference with HDDs. Dual Intel Gigabit Ethernet, too. Anything you need to add to that can probably go in the three PCIe x8 slots. There are other boards from Supermicro in this series with other layouts, but I liked this one for the size and three PCIe slots.

Newer platforms do have performance/power consumption improvements but only incremental unless you're getting into much more expensive product ranges, and my typical CPU load is only around 5% anyway. I'd only really look at something newer if I needed strong CPU performance for something like running professional applications in a VM (or VT-d GPU passthrough for games) or if I needed really fast I/O, more than just 10GbE/SATA3 which I could get with the PCIe slots. Hardware transcoding is also a thing to consider but so far Plex has been able to keep up without it for me.

Eletriarnation fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Jan 1, 2019

H2SO4
Sep 11, 2001

put your money in a log cabin




Buglord

My parents are moving to a place that has a garbage internet connection, so I'm thinking of setting them up with a NAS box that can run Plex and repurposing some old hardware to be an automated media ripping station to feed their physical media into it. The Synology DS918+ looks to be pretty solid and reportedly does well with 4k transcoding, and the Automatic Ripping Machine setup looks to make the conversion pretty painless. Anyone gone through a similar exercise lately to provide some feedback? Their physical media should be pretty skewed towards DVD movies, with some TV shows and lesser blu-rays.

They're a mostly Apple household, will be using Apple TVs or Roku units to consume the media.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Question for Unraid folks, my Deluge docker seems to have flaked out and I can’t access the web interface anymore. Even uninstalling and reinstalling the docker has the same issue. I can access other web consoles for sonarr and plex but deluge is kaput. Any ideas? I will try moving the port next in case that is the issue otherwise I’m stumped. No idea why it flaked either, it was working then I added a couple torrents from a recent humble bundle purchase and kaboom. Cpu utilization went to 100% too.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





Did you wipe out wherever it has its persistent storage stashed?

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

IOwnCalculus posted:

Did you wipe out wherever it has its persistent storage stashed?

That.. I don’t know, something else to check. If I nuke the container does that do it? I will investigate.

apropos man
Sep 5, 2016

You get a hundred and forty one thousand years and you're out in eight!

Eletriarnation posted:

The X3440 I mentioned is basically just a slow 1st-gen i7 (same feature set+ECC, but the i7-860 is 533MHz faster) and I consider it to be kind of a sweet spot, since it's already about as cheap as you can get and Core 2 is a big step down in multiple ways. Power consumption is fairly low; mine uses 50-55W with four 3.5" disks spinning, and probably less than 30 with no disks.

32GB memory is easily done on the X8SIL using registered memory if you want, though I've been fine with 8 since I'm hosting VMs elsewhere. There are 6 SATA ports onboard and though they are only SATA 2 you'd be unlikely to notice a difference with HDDs. Dual Intel Gigabit Ethernet, too. Anything you need to add to that can probably go in the three PCIe x8 slots. There are other boards from Supermicro in this series with other layouts, but I liked this one for the size and three PCIe slots.

Newer platforms do have performance/power consumption improvements but only incremental unless you're getting into much more expensive product ranges, and my typical CPU load is only around 5% anyway. I'd only really look at something newer if I needed strong CPU performance for something like running professional applications in a VM (or VT-d GPU passthrough for games) or if I needed really fast I/O, more than just 10GbE/SATA3 which I could get with the PCIe slots. Hardware transcoding is also a thing to consider but so far Plex has been able to keep up without it for me.

I'm using a "prosumer" Gigabyte ECC Skylake motherboard with a Xeon E3-1240L v5 CPU. It's also, basically, an i7 without the iGPU. It's clocked fairly low and sips power but, as is your use-case, it's ideal for leaving on 24/7 and running a handful of VM's and containers. There's so little need for me to replace it that I think I'm gonna just run it for another 3 years until the possibility of replacing it with some crazy 48-core ARM server board comes out or whatever the next big thing is. I think I may be tempted to replace my spinning storage that's attached to it with SSD's if they eventually come down to under £100 for 2TB but that could be 18 months away. I'm using NVMe for the main OS anyway, so the main thing on spinning drives is document storage and Plex library.

Greatest Living Man
Jul 22, 2005

ask President Obama


ebacho posted:

me posted:

I'm a little confused on buying storage expansion arrays. I currently have a full-blown server running FreeNAS. Would it be compatible with an additional storage array like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Netapp-DS2...0dfee:rk:1:pf:0 ? Could my server just be linked up with fiber to the storage array?
It'll work but you need the correct cables and HBA. I'm using a DS4243 attached to a LSI 9207-8e in my FreeNAS setup.

The hookups to the IOM3/6 in the DS2246/4243/4246 would require a Mini-SAS to QSFP+ cable like this which is kinda pricey: https://www.amazon.com/Data-Storage...words=QSFP+8088

You can also buy the actual Netapp HBA and use QSFP+ to QSFP+ cables which are cheaper but I don't recommend this since it really doesn't like SATA drives. If for some reason you want to do this the part number is 111-00341/PM8003, it's plug and play in FreeNAS if you use SAS drives or have interposers for your SATA drives. Runs really hot so you'd need good airflow in your case.

Another alternative if you want to use normal Mini-SAS to Mini-SAS cables is to buy a controller for the Xyratex HB-1235 and swap it for the IOM in the Netapp shelf but some Servethehome users have said this setup periodically drops disks, so ymmv

If anyone's interested, I got my SEA up and running within an hour. It was surprisingly simple. My main FreeNAS setup is a Supermicro CSE-825 with an X8DTU-F board, so I was limited to 8x 3.5" bays. It only has 6x SATA2 ports so I also have an LSI 8i HBA.

For the expansion array, I ended up going with a LSI SAS9207-8e ($40, ebay), a 15-bay Hitachi DF-F800-RKAK with drive trays included ($99, ebay), and 2x SFF-8088 mini-SAS cables ($8 each, ebay). I think the Hitachi was probably around $100 dollars to ship, so I doubt they made any money off of it. As soon as I hooked up the cards in the server, and plugged a couple of 8 TB WD Reds into the SEA, I saw the new drives in FreeNAS.

Now I have to hook up this APC 3000 VA UPS I found in the electronics disposal at work. Digital hoarding is a serious mental illness.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





priznat posted:

That.. I don’t know, something else to check. If I nuke the container does that do it? I will investigate.

I don't know how Unraid handles it, but when using commandline to create a docker container, apps like Deluge will have at least one "-v path:path" or "--volume path:path" flag that maps a directory inside the container to a directory outside the container. Often there will be multiple of these, such as one for wherever it's dumping data, and another for where it's storing the config. Wherever the config is stored, I'd wipe out. Just deleting / recreating the container does nothing to the contents of those directories, and if it's something jacked up in the config that's making Deluge hang, that could be it.

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

That makes a lot of sense, thanks! Will check it this eve.

G-Prime
Apr 30, 2003

Baby, when it's love,
if it's not rough it isn't fun.


I'm working myself into anxiety thinking about taking a DAS shelf and attaching it to my FreeNAS box to provide a second vdev in the same zpool. Anybody want to comment on having done that? My current thought that's bothering me is what happens if the server comes up and for some reason the DAS box isn't on. What does my pool do at that point? Does it just mark itself as failed and recover if I reboot with the other vdev available?

I guess I could suck it up and make the DAS into a second pool and just symlink it into my current directory structure, which would relieve that concern, but it'd prevent me from freely utilizing all of the storage, because I'd have to consciously distribute things between the two pools.

Also, I've read some things indicating that multiple vdevs in the same pool need to consist of the same number of disks. Is that accurate?

Finally, are people generally using prebuilt DAS shelves (Dell MD1200, Lenovo SA120, etc) for this, or throwing together something custom with a power supply that's shorted to always-on? I've seen indications of both, but the latter sounds incredibly janky to me.

Methylethylaldehyde
Oct 23, 2004

BAKA BAKA


I did a DAS shelf using a Norco 24 bay case, a HP SAS expander card, and using an entire 2nd pc to force the power supply on. I have a Nas box thats an older xeon, and a new threadripper system for vms and whatnot. It works pretty well, no complaints and multi-month uptimes.

If you turn them on out of order, it doesnt do anything but fail to mount the pool. Its really hard to fuck up zfs. Closest I came was forgetting the nas was on while reinstalling the vm host and power cycling the DAS shelf case a dozen times, and a simple scrub was all it took to clear the error with 0kb repaired.

You generally want the vdev to have the same size speed and type of disks but nothing really will be hurt aside from IO consistency if you have a 10 disk, 8 disk and 9 disk vdev all in the same pool.

pgroce
Oct 24, 2002


Eletriarnation posted:

The X3440 I mentioned is basically just a slow 1st-gen i7 (same feature set+ECC, but the i7-860 is 533MHz faster) and I consider it to be kind of a sweet spot, since it's already about as cheap as you can get and Core 2 is a big step down in multiple ways. Power consumption is fairly low; mine uses 50-55W with four 3.5" disks spinning, and probably less than 30 with no disks.

32GB memory is easily done on the X8SIL using registered memory if you want, though I've been fine with 8 since I'm hosting VMs elsewhere. There are 6 SATA ports onboard and though they are only SATA 2 you'd be unlikely to notice a difference with HDDs. Dual Intel Gigabit Ethernet, too. Anything you need to add to that can probably go in the three PCIe x8 slots. There are other boards from Supermicro in this series with other layouts, but I liked this one for the size and three PCIe slots.

Newer platforms do have performance/power consumption improvements but only incremental unless you're getting into much more expensive product ranges, and my typical CPU load is only around 5% anyway. I'd only really look at something newer if I needed strong CPU performance for something like running professional applications in a VM (or VT-d GPU passthrough for games) or if I needed really fast I/O, more than just 10GbE/SATA3 which I could get with the PCIe slots. Hardware transcoding is also a thing to consider but so far Plex has been able to keep up without it for me.

Thanks for the comprehensive recommendation! This all makes a lot of sense. I've traditionally been pretty skeptical of refurbished computer guts, if I can get everything including 32GB of registered RAM for ~$200, it seems well worth a try. It's got to be better than what I have, at any rate. (For every metric but power consumption. Hard to beat an unplugged system.)

Fancy_Lad
May 15, 2003
Would you like to buy a monkey?

priznat posted:

Question for Unraid folks, my Deluge docker seems to have flaked out and I can’t access the web interface anymore. Even uninstalling and reinstalling the docker has the same issue. I can access other web consoles for sonarr and plex but deluge is kaput. Any ideas? I will try moving the port next in case that is the issue otherwise I’m stumped. No idea why it flaked either, it was working then I added a couple torrents from a recent humble bundle purchase and kaboom. Cpu utilization went to 100% too.

A couple months ago, I had a similar problem with it - it would work fine on a Unraid fresh boot, but after awhile the web UI would lock up and restarting the docker wouldn't fix it. I ended up rolling back to version 145 (put "linuxserver/deluge:145" in the repository field) and that resolved the problem. I had kinda forgotten about it and haven't taken the version off to see if it was fixed in an update. I'll poke around and see I can't dig up where I found discussion around it.

Edit: Hey, last page of the support thread is a good place to start
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/417...#comment-694562

Dunno if this is your problem, but sure seems similar. Not a lot of movement there tho.

Fancy_Lad fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jan 2, 2019

priznat
Jul 7, 2009

Let's get drunk and kiss each other all night.

Fancy_Lad posted:

A couple months ago, I had a similar problem with it - it would work fine on a Unraid fresh boot, but after awhile the web UI would lock up and restarting the docker wouldn't fix it. I ended up rolling back to version 145 (put "linuxserver/deluge:145" in the repository field) and that resolved the problem. I had kinda forgotten about it and haven't taken the version off to see if it was fixed in an update. I'll poke around and see I can't dig up where I found discussion around it.

Edit: Hey, last page of the support thread is a good place to start
https://forums.unraid.net/topic/417...#comment-694562

Dunno if this is your problem, but sure seems similar. Not a lot of movement there tho.

Thanks for that info! I think I had already rolled it back as that sounds very familiar, I had tested with 144 last night and same deal. Just tried 145 now and nope. I bet it is a combination of that plus some settings that are aimed for the most recent docker throwing it off. The log is totally no help, sadly.

E: nuking the appdata did it, it seems. Sigh, now have to get it hooked into sonarr all over again and set up my auto move/extract, etc.

eames
May 9, 2009



Check your Synology appliances for updates, a patch for a critical vulnerability (rumored to allow remote code execution via unauthenticated webinterface) was released today.

https://www.synology.com/en-global/...nology_SA_18_64

Schadenboner
Aug 15, 2011

I MEAN, TURN OFF YOURE MONITOR, MIGTH EXPLAIN YOUR BAD POSTS, HOPE THIS HELPS?!

H2SO4 posted:

My parents are moving to a place that has a garbage internet connection, so I'm thinking of setting them up with a NAS box that can run Plex and repurposing some old hardware to be an automated media ripping station to feed their physical media into it. The Synology DS918+ looks to be pretty solid and reportedly does well with 4k transcoding, and the Automatic Ripping Machine setup looks to make the conversion pretty painless. Anyone gone through a similar exercise lately to provide some feedback? Their physical media should be pretty skewed towards DVD movies, with some TV shows and lesser blu-rays.

They're a mostly Apple household, will be using Apple TVs or Roku units to consume the media.

This is only acceptable if you make it yell “FEED ME MORE MEDIA” whenever it finishes a rip and ejects the DVD.

E: Ewww, FLAC.

IOwnCalculus
Apr 2, 2003





eames posted:

Check your Synology appliances for updates, a patch for a critical vulnerability (rumored to allow remote code execution via unauthenticated webinterface) was released today.

https://www.synology.com/en-global/...nology_SA_18_64

Yeeeeesh. Also a good reason to make sure its exposure to the internet is as low as possible.

Gay Retard
Jun 7, 2003



My current SFF ITX NAS has a i5 Devil's Canyon 4690k with 8GB of RAM and 4x drives in Unraid. My docker regularly runs NZBGet, Radarr, Sonarr, Plex, OpenVPN, Nextcloud, and Tautulli, and my Plex is regularly transcoding and streaming a couple 1080p videos while direct streaming locally over our network. Over the next 4-5 years, I see myself slowly upgrading my collection to 4K videos, and giving more friends access to my Plex library, so I'm wondering where I should go with my personal NAS.

Idea #1:
Pick up a Norco 8x hot swap Mini ITX case, transfer my current NAS into it, and slowly add new 10-12TB drives to my current Unraid system. Eventually swap out the CPU, mobo, and RAM if/when I have issues transcoding videos on the fly.

Idea #2:
Pick up a relatively affordable Dell Poweredge from eBay, which would have 2x Xeon CPUs in it.

Picking up used enterprise hardware seems like the better and cheaper option in the long-run, but I like being able to slowly upgrade my current NAS as I need more space. I'm just not sure how well my 5 year-old CPU is going to be able to keep up with transcoding 4K videos on the fly, or even if modern consumer Intel CPUs can do it.

MagusDraco
Nov 11, 2011

even speedwagon was trolled


Plex does not like to transcode 4k video right now so you'll be wanting to get things that can direct play any 4k video that you'll be watching. Plex loses the hdr metadata when it attempts to transcode 4k videos and can't tonemap it to a SDR output so if you do manage to play something transcoded it will look washed out.

I know the haswell 4 core Xeon in my Dell T20 can't begin to transcode 4k stuff even if plex didn't have all those other problems with transcoding 4k video. It can transcode the audio in a 4k video if it has to and that still works fine but it is way too slow to transcode the video.

edit: the very rough plex guidelines for transcoding 4k video in plex from 4k to 1080p:

quote:

4K HDR (50Mbps, 10-bit HEVC) file: 17000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)
4K SDR (40Mbps, 8-bit HEVC) file: 12000 PassMark score (being transcoded to 10Mbps 1080p)

MagusDraco fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jan 2, 2019

Inept
Jul 8, 2003

3 olives has a payment plan with his phone company for his cell phone

Gay Retard posted:

Idea #2:
Pick up a relatively affordable Dell Poweredge from eBay, which would have 2x Xeon CPUs in it.

Picking up used enterprise hardware seems like the better and cheaper option in the long-run

Even if you don't care about noise, an old dual CPU PowerEdge is going to use a lot of electricity and be costly in the long run.

Gay Retard
Jun 7, 2003



MagusDraco posted:

Plex does not like to transcode 4k video right now so you'll be wanting to get things that can direct play any 4k video that you'll be watching. Plex loses the hdr metadata when it attempts to transcode 4k videos and can't tonemap it to a SDR output so if you do manage to play something transcoded it will look washed out.

I know the haswell 4 core Xeon in my Dell T20 can't begin to transcode 4k stuff even if plex didn't have all those other problems with transcoding 4k video. It can transcode the audio in a 4k video if it has to and that still works fine but it is way too slow to transcode the video.

edit: the very rough plex guidelines for transcoding 4k video in plex from 4k to 1080p:

Ouch. Sounds like my first idea is better, hopefully Plex and Intel can catch up by the time I end up upgrading my CPU in a couple years.

suddenlyissoon
Feb 17, 2002

Don't be sad that I am gone.


eames posted:

Check your Synology appliances for updates, a patch for a critical vulnerability (rumored to allow remote code execution via unauthenticated webinterface) was released today.

https://www.synology.com/en-global/...nology_SA_18_64

Great time to be stuck repairing my storage pool for 3 days after I put in a new drive in.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007



Hey, dumb storage question here:

I'm trying to cheap out on buying a NAS for plex by using an old desktop I already had lying around. I set it up, got it on the network and all that, no problem. My issue is finding the best way to keep my media files sync'd between my general use desktop and the pseudoNAS.

- What I'd like to do is have a directory on my desktop, and have it regularly (daily, or whenever I hit the sync button) mirror that directory on the NAS
- The ability to have the NAS in sleep mode most of the time and use WakeOnLan to wake it up just prior to syncing would be nice.
- Best case scenario would be to have it behave like cloud software, where renaming a file also renames the mirrored file, rather than deleting it and then copying it again with the new name, but this may be unrealistic

H110Hawk
Dec 28, 2006


Bobulus posted:

Hey, dumb storage question here:

I'm trying to cheap out on buying a NAS for plex by using an old desktop I already had lying around. I set it up, got it on the network and all that, no problem. My issue is finding the best way to keep my media files sync'd between my general use desktop and the pseudoNAS.

- What I'd like to do is have a directory on my desktop, and have it regularly (daily, or whenever I hit the sync button) mirror that directory on the NAS
- The ability to have the NAS in sleep mode most of the time and use WakeOnLan to wake it up just prior to syncing would be nice.
- Best case scenario would be to have it behave like cloud software, where renaming a file also renames the mirrored file, rather than deleting it and then copying it again with the new name, but this may be unrealistic

Why not save directly to the NAS?

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

Bless You Ants, Blants



Fun Shoe

suddenlyissoon posted:

Great time to be stuck repairing my storage pool for 3 days after I put in a new drive in.

Just turn off remote access until you're in a position to be able to run the update

Droo
Jun 25, 2003



Bobulus posted:

Hey, dumb storage question here:

I'm trying to cheap out on buying a NAS for plex by using an old desktop I already had lying around. I set it up, got it on the network and all that, no problem. My issue is finding the best way to keep my media files sync'd between my general use desktop and the pseudoNAS.

- What I'd like to do is have a directory on my desktop, and have it regularly (daily, or whenever I hit the sync button) mirror that directory on the NAS
- The ability to have the NAS in sleep mode most of the time and use WakeOnLan to wake it up just prior to syncing would be nice.
- Best case scenario would be to have it behave like cloud software, where renaming a file also renames the mirrored file, rather than deleting it and then copying it again with the new name, but this may be unrealistic

You can use robocopy in a .bat file on your desktop and click it whenever you want. Here is an example.

robocopy "C:\Users\Droo\Desktop" "Z:\Backups\DrooPC\Desktop" /MIR /B /W:0 /R:0

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007



Yeah, robocopy's about what I've got now, just didn't know if there was nicer software designed for this purpose.

H110Hawk posted:

Why not save directly to the NAS?

I could, but if I'm mirroring a directory I'm also getting a very primitive form of backup, so I never have to rip my DVD and bluray collection ever again, should either the NAS drive or my main hard drive die.

eames
May 9, 2009



Thanks Ants posted:

Just turn off remote access until you're in a position to be able to run the update

Yeah, I'd at least disable the port forwarding. The vulnerability seems pretty serious and could lead to another Synolocker/Ransomware type of attack.

Quixzlizx
Jan 7, 2007


Bobulus posted:

Yeah, robocopy's about what I've got now, just didn't know if there was nicer software designed for this purpose.


I could, but if I'm mirroring a directory I'm also getting a very primitive form of backup, so I never have to rip my DVD and bluray collection ever again, should either the NAS drive or my main hard drive die.

I just posted about this a few days ago. This program even detects renamed files, but only if you get the paid version (which I did not).

https://forums.somethingawful.com/s...8#post491108621

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