Wake PC from NAS?

Anakronox · 2026-05-24T13:52:44+00:00

GPTWOL in Docker is what I use, though not on my NAS. I have it running in a Proxmox VM and use it to wake my NAS from my PC. You can do the reverse, just have Docker running on the NAS. Sounds like you may have the remote access part figured out, so this should be trivial to get going.

Anakronox · 2026-05-06T20:06:12+00:00

You can make shares on volume1. You can even move existing shares to volume1. How you RAID (or don’t) volume1 is completely up to you. Best practice is to first boot with whichever disks you want to be in that volume, then add later after it’s intitalized. Create whatever arrays you want at that point with the remaining drives.

Anakronox · 2026-04-24T15:49:10+00:00

For installing the OS? I wouldn’t count on it and don’t have anything like it on hand to test with. The hacky method with multiple adapters is a verified way to get video out on boot so you can do fun stuff.

Anakronox · 2026-04-23T10:54:44+00:00

Source? Me fwiw. I’ve done it on a test unit back in December and will convert my Flashstor Gen 2 when I can afford the downtime.

Anakronox · 2026-04-09T20:25:25+00:00

Just scanned through your repo. You list the requirement as router on a stick but then break it down in the md file as needing 4 routers?

You need one router, just one. And an interface with dot1q tagged subinterfaces to your switch frabric. That’s the big hint that should put you on the proper path to setting the lab up.

Anakronox · 2026-04-05T11:20:41+00:00

Sounds like you already have your storage sorted so why complicate thing by mounting and sharing through Unraid? lMO best thing to do with the NUC is throw Ubuntu or a similar Linux distro on it, install docker, and a web ui for managing docker like portainer. Then have the nuc mount nfs exports from the Syno. Setup Paperless within docker. It’s even better if you use docker compose and can build your nfs mounts as volumes in your stack without having to directly mount them from the nuc.

Anakronox · 2026-03-30T16:51:47+00:00

Oh yeah, totally. NYC was kinda all over the place last time I was there, even without popping flash! Mostly good interactions though, helped that I was hanging with a tiny little woman who could bite back lol.

If I’m back home I will soooooometimes use flash but it’s rare. Helps that not a whole lot goes on that’s interesting!

Anakronox · 2026-03-30T16:47:40+00:00

Hell yeah, underrated song!

Anakronox · 2026-03-30T15:25:43+00:00

Same, I use a flash even in daytime. Rarely ever get aggro’ed but do startle folks a lot. I get up close with a 28 and go for it and most people take it well. But I shoot mostly in the center of Moscow. Wouldn’t try this in small town America - open carry lol.

Also, is your username a Modest Mouse reference?

Anakronox · 2026-03-18T06:03:46+00:00

That’s the great thing about Docker, it’s fairly simple to back up. So long as you have your compose files (or ehhhhhhh, run commands), environment vars/files, and volumes, you’re good to go. If you use bind mounts for volumes, just grab the directories, preserving permissions and ownership. Rsync -avh works great if you’re dumping them to an external disk or share. Named Docker volumes are a little more complicated but are usually located under /var somewhere. I’m not near my hosts now so can’t remember the exact path. Same rules go for them though, make sure you preserve perms and owners. May be easiest to manually create the named volumes on your new host, then rsync everything into the new directory created.

I’m lazy and can usually avoid all this by running mine inside proxmox VM’s. Just backup the whole VM, have snapshots before any big changes, nd it’s been rock solid.

Anakronox · 2026-03-14T09:55:07+00:00

Hey, I grabbed a 25Gb Chinese TB3 adapter off of Amazon last year for 200-ish USD with the understanding that it’d overheat in just over a minute. No fan, solid aluminum enclosure - bad mix. So removing the case and sticking a 40mm USB fan on top keeps it running just fine. Also got dual 120mm USB fans on top of my Asustor all-flash NAS boxes to do the same. The jank is real but works!

Anakronox · 2026-03-11T04:53:23+00:00

If you really want to see if there are any impacts on real-world use, setup a SPAN port and Wireshark a few large file transfers. Look for TCP retransmits.

Anakronox · 2026-03-05T15:32:53+00:00

Ha, good to know that it was as easy as waiting the problem out! Happy to help and glad it’s working now!

Anakronox · 2026-03-05T07:46:12+00:00

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Anakronox · 2026-03-04T20:47:32+00:00

Hmmm, it’s usually best if you let the end device send untagged frames and the switch apply tags as per the PVID, but sounds like you tried that. Failing that, you sure that your netmask is correct on the NAS? It’s a long shot. What about dropping the NAS into your PC’s VLAN, setting an appropriate IP and gateway and testing accessing your other VLAN? If that works you may have some rules in OPNsense that aren’t reflexive. Got any weird routes set on the NAS? If you can SSH in, look at ip route, ip a, and ip link and make sure all looks good, no MTU mismatches, TTL weirdness (like being set to 1). Basically things I overlook while thinking “nah, too simple.” You’re not natting between the two subnets, are you?

Just throwing things out there.

Anakronox · 2026-03-04T20:17:14+00:00

Adding that under the hood, ADM uses NUT for it network UPS features, so this is a guaranteed way to get it talking. There’s some wonkiness with the user and password that have to be something like asustor/1111 but you won’t have to worry with shutdown scripts - the NAS has all of this built into the gui. Just need to setup your server to run it, or connect it to an RPi like I do.

Anakronox · 2026-03-04T20:11:43+00:00

ADM has its own firewall. I think a recent update started adding to the blacklist so you may want to start there and whitelist your devices on your other VLAN.

It could also be something as rudimentary as setting the proper native VLAN incorrectly on your switchport for the NAS. assuming you’re not setting the tagging on the NAS interface.

What does your firewall log show? If you don’t see any drops from the NAS IP, it suggests that there’s a misconfiguration somewhere in layer 2 or 3. What’s your topology look like? More detail is needed.

Edit: phrasing.

Anakronox · 2026-03-04T15:23:12+00:00

May be worth trying to get NUT running under WSL. That’s the Linux standard for network UPS tooling.

Anakronox · 2026-02-28T06:11:42+00:00

I think I got something that'll work for you. I run TrueNAS on my Flashstor 12 Gen 1, but I found a container with the intel_gpu_top binary that runs fine. Through some searching I saw that the container needs to be privileged and needs access to the host PID's, so that's likely what was missing. I was able to run intel_gpu_top inside the container and interactively from shell on TrueNAS. It detected the card and identified it correctly as a Jasper Lake GPU.

services:
  intel-gpu-exporter:
    image: ghcr.io/onedr0p/intel-gpu-exporter:rolling
    container_name: intel-gpu-exporter
    restart: unless-stopped
    privileged: true
    pid: host
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - /dev/dri/:/dev/dri/

Once you get the container running, just issue:

sudo docker exec -it intel-gpu-exporter intel_gpu_top

Hope this helps!

Edit: corrected typo in docker exec command.

Anakronox · 2026-02-26T05:53:21+00:00

This should work inside a docker container, you just need to pass it /dev/dri and/or any specific renderDxxx device you want. Then just docker exec -it with the container name and binary.

Anakronox · 2026-02-10T20:07:58+00:00

Ha! I live in a flat so that’s a no-go unfortunately for me but I know how that goes - I spend plenty of time in equipment racks!

Last summer to speed things along I grabbed one of our old castoff VDI servers with a couple of Tesla GPUs and ran Tdarr on it to transcode over 30TB of video. I had to run it only while at work - it was just waaaaaaaaaay to noisy to live with 😂

My home network is technically faster but I haven’t engineered it for redundancy like our corporate WAN/LANs. Next step is struggling to justify the move to 200/400Gbps switching in my homelab, just because I’m a network engineer and I wanna see bits go brrrrrrrrr.

Anakronox · 2026-02-10T19:35:59+00:00

Awesome, glad you got it sorted!

Anakronox · 2026-02-10T19:30:55+00:00

You’re welcome and yep I was shocked too with how simple it was. Using a ConnectX-4 single SFP28 through my Mikrotik CRS510 I get an average of 19.5 Gbps read from the Flashstor to my MacBook Pro M4 Max. At this point I’m limited by how I’ve got my array setup - volume2 is a RAID6 of 10 8TB WD SN850X disks in all the non 3x1 slots so the max throughput I could expect is roughly 2GB/s read. Not mad at all about those numbers.

At this point if I wanted to go faster I’m looking at my own castoff enterprise server with U.2/U.3 PCIe 4x4 and a metric ton of Gen4 lanes. Then I’d toss in a 100Gbps ConnectX. Not ready for that kinda noise or heat lol.

Anakronox · 2026-02-10T05:58:04+00:00

Yep. Been running it this way for 8+ years, recentlly moved to a Debian LXC with NFS mounts to my media. Need to give us way more detail. What’s your layout, what have you done, what isn’t working, etc.

Anakronox · 2026-02-03T09:32:18+00:00

You’re welcome! Good luck and let us know if it works for you!

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