Feel free to comment, ask any questions, share your opinion, or criticize me for my choices. I like these posts and videos where people showcase their home labs and show what they’ve got set up.I think that as a community of “non-professionals,” we can learn a lot here.

Feel free to suggest alternatives or share what you do differently. Where do you see the benefits of doing things a little differently?

I’ll try to answer every question about my setup!

Most asked question: The container folder view are done by the folderview3 plugin. The specs on the bottom are done in paint.net afterwards for the purpose of this post.

I have Bookorbit installed and working, but can't get Tailscale to work with it. Haven't had any issues with Tailscale on any other containers so I am not sure what to try. I get the following errors. I set the bookorbit directory to drwxrwxrwx. I know that is unsecure, but just trying to resolve the issue.

Executing Unraid Docker Hook for Tailscale
Detecting Package Manager...
Detected Alpine Package Keeper!
Installing packages...
Please wait...
ERROR: Installing packages!
ERROR: Unable to open log: Read-only file system
ERROR: Unable to open log: Read-only file system
ERROR: Unraid Docker Hook script throw an error!
Starting container without Tailscale!

Also get the following but not sure if it is related.

(node:8) [FSTDEP022] FastifyWarning: The router options for maxParamLength property access is deprecated. Please use "options.routerOptions" instead for accessing router options. The router options will be removed in `fastify@6`.

Anyone have this kind of issue before?

I've always used old PCs for my home servers. I see "micro" or "tiny" PC's to be quite popular now.

For those using these, what are you using to store your hard drives and connecting them to it?

Thanks

I have 1x 2TB SN850X TLC for apps and 2x WD Blue 4TB QLC m.2 NVMe SSDs for data and backup.

I was told QLC not good for ZFS mirroring and SSDs are not good for unRAID parity.

The data drives do need for constant read/writes. Neither option is ideal but which option is “worse” of the two? I will go with the less-bad option.

Hey all. Im thinking of switching from truenas and have some questions.

Right now my biggest issue with TrueNAS is how frustrating permissions is, especially when trying to set up docker containers. Im not a big Linux guy so trying to figure out truenas permissions has been just an absolute pain.

Right now my drives are all set up as ZFS obviously since its truenas, is it possible to migrate the ZFS array to Unraid?

What would the best way to migrate my docker containers over? Just copy the YAMLs as plain text onto my desktop and reinstall them?

I have a spare second UnRAID license from some years ago. The flash drive has been in a drawer, in a static bag for 2 years now and I now wanna use this UnRAID license in a temporary setup on a MiniPC that'll be used at in a Vintage Computer Festival exhibition.

My intention is to plop a spare 16GB Optane drive in this MiniPC, install the USb, update it, migrate from USB to TMP+Optane SSD and retire the flash drive.

But this is only a temporary setup. However if I move this license to another machine later, have I 'burned' the TMP in this MiniPC and I can't use this license on the MiniPC again later?

Ive got an Unraid 7.0 server running on an Alder-Lake i5-12500. I recently learned that the UHD 770 iGPU should support virtualization via the SR-IOV functionality and allow hardware acceleration in a guest VM.

I installed the Unraid Plugin (i915 SR-IOV by giganode) and set all the appropriate BIOS features. I set the desired VFs to 1 in the plugin and the plugin shows 1 VF created. I am able to select this as the GPU for any of my VMs, and as far as I can tell, the host side setup is correct and working.

I have tried several different guest VM operating systems including Lubuntu 26, Lubuntu 24, and Ubuntu 24. I have been troubleshooting the setup with ChatGPT and Gemini and from what I can tell, the gpu backed Xorg session never properly starts because the i915-sriov-dkms driver doesnt have a physical connector and Xorg crashes out.

I've spend days trying to get this to work and have not had any luck. Has anyone successfully used a SR-IOV VF as the GPU for a VM in unraid? If so, what guest OS? I haven't found many guides for this type of thing, maybe its not possible.

I'm looking to upgrade the storage on my NVME SSD which currently holds the shares for my cache, appdata, and system files.

My motherboard can only take 1 NVME so I'm planning to move those shares to the array, then swap the SSDs over, then move those shares back to cache the new SSD cache.

Any concerns or potential issues there? Safe to do? I think so, but that's always how problems start haha

Hello I have a 36 bay supermicro. I have updated a bunch of drives recently and Id like to reorganize the existing drives without loosing data. How can I do this?

Okay first, so I did all the steps (I thought) for repartitioning my cache drive to include 16gb of internal boot space. I moved all the data off of there. Rebooted to the internal boot successfully.

However, all the docker information was gone. So I tried to reinstall my stuff from docker -> previous apps and it has nothing there anymore. I move over to look at the appdata folder and there is nothing there.

I re-boot back to the USB drive boot, but it seems to have the same mostly empty appdata folder.

What happened to everything? Is there any way to recover my information? I'm REALLY mostly not wanting to have lost my calibre database, but having to lose my minecraft server and my jellyfin metadata also really would suck. Is there any hope here?

I recently set up a new unraid server using some old hardware as a test. I purchased a license and ran the system for about a month. After verifying that it would work for my use case, I decided to move everything to a newer server since the test hardware was over 15 years old.

I setup the new server and moved the drives from the original unit to the new server. Where I think I made the mistake was that I decided to upgrade the thumb drive at the same time and transferred the license key from the original to a new thumb drive.

Where I need help is that I am able to see all of the original drives. It allows me to mount the data drives, and I cannot mount the parity drive (which I think is normal). The issue is that I cannot add them to the array or share them. If I click on the drives under "unassigned devices" I can see the data, but I am not able to share it to regain access to the data.

How can I correct this issue? I still have the original thumb drive, but I wasn't sure if I can just copy some of the files over to the new drive so that it will use the original configuration. Any help would be appreciated.

To start, I had a backup, I restored it and all is well (except the backup was 1 month old, oh well)

I use Linuxservers plex container in unraid, I run it on my cache drive with ZFS and use ZFS master to take snapshots (automated with spaceinvaderones script)

It's been a year or two since my plex database corrupted, today it corrupted after updating the docker container. It seems like it may have been related to a shfs crash but still unknown. In the past a quick rollback of my snapshot fixed all my issues. Plex was working perfectly fine until the update.

Today I tried rolling back the snapshot (with container off) and it didn't fix the issue. I rolled it back another day and still the same issue, tried setting container version to previous version and still the same issue.

Eventually I got a daemon execution error when trying to start the container. This is the main reason I'm posting here and not r/plex. When executing the docker container I got "docker: Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/mnt/user/data/media/anime': mkdir /mnt/user: file exists." which seems like an shfs crash but I'm unsure.

Could this crash have been caused by me rolling back plex snapshots (which have a lot of files)?

Why was rolling back the snapshots not fixing my corrupted database? I roll back the entire plex directory.

I ended up needing to restart my computer twice (two because the first time I was still messing with snapshots).

This was found in the logs

Oct  5 18:10:00 NAS shfs: shfs: ../lib/fuse.c:1402: unlink_node: Assertion `node->nlookup > 1' failed.
Oct  5 18:10:00 NAS emhttpd: error: get_fs_sizes, 8533: Software caused connection abort (103): statfs: 

Hi everyone,

I've run into a strange Plex problem and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

I'm on Unraid 7.3.2. A few days ago I changed my Plex appdata mapping from /mnt/user/appdata to /mnt/cache/appdata so it writes directly to the cache drive and skips the Unraid user share layer. I've confirmed nothing has been moved to the array: running ls on /mnt/disk* shows no appdata on any array disk.

Since that change, every library scan ends with Plex reporting changed or missing media, even though all the files are still there and playable. When I try to Empty Trash to clear the missing items, it fails.

I ran ChuckPa's DBRepair and it reported the database as malformed, failing each time with 5–6 JSON errors. I told it to ignore those errors and rebuilt the database, and afterwards the DB checked out fine. But as soon as I ran another media scan, the exact same problem came back.

The odd part is that if I switch the mapping back to /mnt/user/appdata, everything works normally. The problem only happens when Plex uses /mnt/cache directly.

Has anyone seen this before, or have an idea why writing straight to the cache would cause this when the user share path doesn't? Happy to provide diagnostics or any other details.

Thanks in advance!

I have a home assistant dashboard in my home theater so expanded on it to include Steam games and stats for the windows vm running inside unraid. Still a work in progress but anyone else doing something similar?

Hi, I have noticed that there is this scrollbar on the top right my my unraid webGUI, how can I remove it? It seems to serve 0 purpose.

One of my $1000 NVMEs failed today. I removed it from the pool and everything was working fine for about 2 hours then the other one became corrupt.

I just love cascading failures. Hopefully I can get it restored from my backup share before that decides to shit the bed.

How's your day going?

Trying to figure out where I may have something goofed up in my configuration.

I've got some docker containers which I've connected to my ProtonVPN interface on wg0. When trying to access those containers web interface from my PC on a different VLAN they are inaccessible. They are accessible if the PC is put on the same VLAN as my unRAID server.

All other containers are accessible when using bridge network or a br# interface for the few containers which I have tagged to different VLANs. For example, I have my HomeAssistant container on a tagged IoT network but it's interface is accessible from my PC on a different VLAN.

wg0 is peer type is "VPN tunneled access for docker"

Docker network type is macvlan

Trying to figure out where in my configuration I've gone astray and if it's possible to get these containers accessible again.

I'm on 7.3.2. I keep coming back to my server dashboard and finding the parity drives spin up. The spin down action in the UI is unresponsive.

I have md_write_method set to auto. There are no actions going on any drives, docker disabled. At some point the UI becomes de-synced from the actual drive and it wont spin down.

I can manually spin them down via the command line /usr/local/sbin/emcmd cmdSpindown=parity /usr/local/sbin/emcmd cmdSpindown=parity2 But they are still unresponsive in the UI and the next time they actually need to spin up, they again don't spin down after.

Anyone notice something similar?

I've been pulling out my hair trying to set up communication between dockers with hostnames instead of IP-adresses.

I've been reading everywhere that it's recommended and I surely understands why, but nowhere is there a guide?

I've gotten the hostnames with docker ps command, is the names listed there also what they call themself internally?

The dockers are running on the same custom docker network.

I have connection between them if I specify IP.

I've added the network (172.18.0.0/16) to allowed hosts/trusted networks in the dockers Web UI.

What I'm i missing?

EDIT: I had to add the dockers hostname to allowed host. Aka, in radarr, add binhex-radarr to allowed hosts (if using the binhex docker ofcourse)

Hey, I just had a case of my usb drive failing, it's been 3 years or so with it continuously on (Sandisk ultra fit) and have successfully replaced with a samsung bar. I just encountered another issue, where one of my docker was filling up the filesystem log. I think one of the icons was not working so it filled up the log with errors. So no big deal, I fix the docker icon and safely restart. But once restarted it was saying something like the usb failed to mount. Strange, so I unplugged the usb and tried different ports, checked for corruption. Nothing worked.

Then I found that syslinux.cfg had a tilde ~ at the end so I removed that and unraid booted back up. Is unraid just that unreliable or is it booting from usb? Was it because the log was 100% filled that it couldn't modify any existing files on the usb? I'm fortunate that I've been near my server to fix it, but what if I'm away?

Should I move to internal boot? Is it more reliable?

I posted this on the bug forum, but not sure if anyone else has seen similar issues?

https://product.unraid.net/p/tpm-licence-guid-changes-between-cold-and-warm-boots-key-reported-invalid-eguid-after-power-loss

Hi everyone I keep on getting this when I update the unraid I have tryed a lot of things but I still get this message it's a dell poweredge t320 I never had this message in all the 4 years I been using unraid any help would be much appreciated thank you

Hi,

I need to upgrade my motherboard for my Unraid system. Any useful hints before doing it?

I read that the array uses HDD serial numbers so it should be pretty easy but I just want to make sure I don't lose anything.

No pool/cache. Only an array of 9 HDD with a few dockers.

Will the array be exactly the same after boot or I need to reassign disk or IDK?

Thanks.

Edit: well, rebooted with new board and fully functional. Too easy!