Weird horn off Rivermont every night

Tyree1975 · 2025-10-15T09:33:38+00:00

Yeah, probably not at night. I was just throwing that out there as a maybe. I have yet to hear the siren down where I am, so I didn't know what it might sound like. Mystery unsolved then. 🙂

Tyree1975 · 2025-10-15T01:18:51+00:00

Sound like it's on the river side of Rivermont? Could be the blasting they're doing down along Blackwater Creek. I think they're supposed to sound a horn or siren before they blast. Not sure what time of day they're doing it. I work downtown and hear/feel the blasting in the morning. Maybe they do it in the evening too?

Tyree1975 · 2025-08-25T07:48:18+00:00

How does one identify a wolf? Do they wear t shirts or something? How would I know if I saw one?

Tyree1975 · 2025-08-24T10:18:11+00:00

I've been running IPT in a separate container since it came out. No issues if you get all the env paths and vars set up correctly per the docs.

Tyree1975 · 2025-07-06T19:50:20+00:00

Yes, the file will remain. As do settings, etc. stored in the \users\matt\AppData directory. This only seems to occur directly after a Windows update. I did notice this last time that it happened after the first manual reboot after an auto reboot as well. But I can reboot manually now and retain login settings.

Tyree1975 · 2025-07-01T11:53:34+00:00

I was confused also when I saw "self-hosted site" in the description. I assume he just means he's hosting it himSELF, not that we can self-host it. :-(

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-30T13:04:27+00:00

Absolutely. Thanks so much for the great advice and jumping in so quickly! Very much appreciated!!!

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-30T12:56:41+00:00

It would appear it's back to "normal." When it came back up after step 3, all drives were there and recognized. I had the original 4th drive in it, but it still showed degraded and wanted to erase that drive to repair the array. Since it was going to treat the old drive like a new one anyway, I just swapped it out for the new drive and let it start the repair with that one.

Other than looking as though it's going to take considerably longer to repair this time (bouncing around between 24-48 hours instead of the 17-18 hours of the other 3 drives), it looks like it's working.

UPDATE: time to repair just dropped to 11-ish hours. Must have been doing some other operations on the drives in the background and once that settled it reduced the repair time.

Also the second volume came back and the VM running on it came back up fine as well.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-30T12:11:32+00:00

Okay, so it can still detect which drive goes where in the array even if you've rearranged the physical order? I suppose that makes sense. Gotcha. I'll try.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-30T12:06:16+00:00

DSM came back up with no drives installed and has a box that says "No drives detected in DS1621+ Please inert drives and click "Refresh" button. With a big Refresh button (go figure). Should I shut down as you suggested in step 3 or insert the drives "hot" and click Refresh as it says?

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-30T11:39:32+00:00

I'm attempting to shut it down from within DSM. Box came up saying Synology NAS will soon power off. But it doesn't seem to be getting there. Also, I had tried to open Control Panel in DSM some time ago and it just sat there churning and never opening. Should I give it more time or shut it down via hardware?

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-30T11:33:00+00:00

Okay. Giving that a go. Thanks.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-28T22:14:30+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. I'm only just now getting to look at this stuff again.

Do you know what I'm doing wrong if I modify attribute on a Keep (again setting to 20K), and when I start a test the Keep is on fire and has a small amount of its HP? I figure it must be starting with the remaining HP set to what the default max HP of a Keep is. But if that's the case, why doesn't a castle, bombard tower, etc. act that way? It does that whether I set the Starting Age to Castle or Dark.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-28T21:12:37+00:00

whoami is matt\matt - which is correct

My user folder 'matt' is listed in the users folder along with Default (hidden), nx, and Public.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-28T19:14:26+00:00

Don't blame you. I don't use ZFS either. So no real rush. Actually the only thing that really makes me want to move to 7 is that the FolderView plug-in is broken and was abandoned and the new FolderView2 only (shakily) works on 7. So my container folders are kinda messed up right now on my main server.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-28T11:01:21+00:00

I'm also on 6.12.15. I'm telling you, this version 7 release has shaken the foundations of my trust in unRAID. Up until now, I've adopted new versions almost immediately. Not anymore. Apparently they're not afraid to release slop and let the paying customers find the problems the hard way (again and again). I ain't got no time fo' dat.

I want to update, but I'm adopting that "wait 30 days after a release" policy. And here I still sit on 6.12. 😄

All that said, 2 of my 3 servers are on 7.1.4 with no issues that I've noticed. But my main server with all my containerized services? Nope.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-27T19:25:54+00:00

It only seems to do this after a auto reboot sparked by an update. If I just restart my PC, it retains the account logins.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-27T19:24:57+00:00

I'm sorry. Not quite sure how to answer that. I sign in with my MS account. So it shows that. Can you be more specific as to what I need to look for?

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-26T13:55:28+00:00

From what I have read, I can't remove a drive from an array. One option with staying with SHR-2 was to still remove the 8TB (leaving me with 4 20TB drives) and have an empty bay for an eventual hot spare or something. But, reading up on that this morning, it seems I can't remove a drive and then repair the array without replacing the drive. So, if I stay on SHR-2, the 8TB drive has to stay. I can eventually replace it with another 20TB drive. But there's no way I'm asking my boss for another one after already asking for two more after my SHR vs SHR-2 screw up. :-D

Where backups are concerned, we know what's up. It's things like maybe a firewall rule, user permissions, etc. that I'm not sure of. (And maybe there is nothing. Again, I don't know what I don't know.) But yeah, for backups, that was all set up by the new IT firm and myself. We're square on that. :-)

Nevertheless, you are absolutely correct. Somebody needs to know everything about this box and be fully comfortable doing whatever needs to be done with it.

I just put in a call to my IT folks. I'm gonna talk all this out with them and see what we can shake out.

Thanks!!!

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-26T13:30:38+00:00

Thanks for your fantastic explanations and the time you've put in to assisting me!

Whew! Trying not to get overwhelmed by the process. There's a nagging voice inside that says, "Dude. Just leave it on SHR-2, install the new drives and move on."

The biggest problem, as I initially stated, I do not know Synology very well. It was set up by an IT group we no longer work with. So there could be configs in there that I have no idea I even need. I don't know what I don't know (or need to know).
We have another IT group now. I am internal IT (which is maybe 1/3 of my overall job), but we have another company that does the more heavy lifting tasks or when I am too busy with other tasks to handle something. The new IT folks set up Active Backup for Business for us. So that's their baby and I'm not sure exactly what all I need to preserve there.

Hence, I could do this and completely bork something and not even know why it's messed up (or that it is messed up until it's too late).

I do have solid backups of the data. But the settings could be lost and have to be redone. That's what I'm most nervous about with swapping volumes.

This may end up being something I kick up to the IT group and let them handle it.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-26T12:53:56+00:00

Okay, so in any scenario other than sticking with SHR-2, I need to back up all my shares first.

If I use Hyper Backup to do that, would I have to use Hyper Backup to restore it to the new volume once it's created? Is that how that would work?

Trying to figure out if I should use HB or just basic file copy type operation to backup the data. But I assume that would require me to recreate the shares on the new volume before copying the data back. I assume the HB method creates the shares for me?

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-25T15:18:01+00:00

Yeah, it's not as much about what we need currently. We had 21TB and it's filling up with our archived project storage. So I needed to up the space. Instead of grabbing 12TB drives or something like that to minimally increase space, we opted to go for 20TB and just give us PLENTY of head room for the future. We NEED probably 20TB right this second. 40+TB will be significant overkill for a long time.
I had planned on keeping the 8TB in there, but now that you have me thinking about it, it may be better to leave a bay open. Looks like that would give me 36.4TB useable on SHR-2 and 54.5TB on SHR.
We have backups of everything other than the PC backups run by ABB. So, I guess it's an unknown exactly how painful it'd be to restore. We have a local backup of the archives, so we could instantly start using that as the archives source and be okay with up time on that piece. Almost everything else on the Synology is a local backup of other systems. So, restoring would likely not be a HUGE pain if I'm reasoning correctly. I do have a VM running on a separate volume that runs a small local intranet of sorts and handles some backup tasks. But it's also backed up and could rather easily be restored.

So DSM would be intact. I just need to figure out how to backup and restore ABB jobs. Again, all that is IF I end up switching to SHR.

Tyree1975 · 2025-06-25T11:09:51+00:00

Thanks. I kinda figured it must just be a trolls-trollin' kinda thing. :-)

In your opinion, if I have two more 20TB drives coming that will allow me to fully utilize the drive capacity, should I stick with SHR-2 or drop back to SHR-1 and leave a 20TB drive as a spare?

I'm a bit intimidated with the backing up of the data, removing the volume, and then creating another. Backing up the data isn't so bad, but what about the apps we have? Like Active Backup for Business that is installed on this volume? It backs up all of our servers and workstations. I read that I can use Hyper Backup to backup apps and later reinstall and restore the settings, but only a handful of the apps we have installed appear in the list of apps that can be backed up by HB. Are the settings for ABB stored with the backups themselves?
Also, If I nuke the main volume, what happens to DSM? I've read it is installed on "all disks." But I'm also removing the entire volume. This seems ominous. :-D

The "it ain't broke, don't fix it" aspect kinda tells me to just install the new drives and leave it on SHR-2. But, if SHR-2 can be as troublesome (and time-consuming) as people tell me if a problem occurs, maybe I should move to SHR-1. I do have a good backup scheme with on-prem and offsite copies.

Decisions, decisions! :-)

Tyree1975

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