HP Microserver+XPEnology

FlipFlop · 28 Jun 2016 at 21:35

Hi guys, new to this thread.

I've been running Xpenology for 2 years and haven't dared do an update.

Is it worth doing an update at this time?

I'm finding that Sickbeard is increasingly letting me down and it simply will not get episodes that are missed meaning I'm needing to do it manually.

I actually just cancelled my newsdemon sub for the first time in 2 years as the server had stopped bringing in most of my series despite being subbed to dognzb and one other decent one.

ANDARIAL · 28 Jun 2016 at 21:37

Just don`t upgrade to 5.2-5967 or above yet

Mp4 · 28 Jun 2016 at 21:40

Cheers Andarial.

Going to try and use this bloody server now

been well over a year & half and its been in its box since i bought it!

If anyones local to Eastbourne & wants a project to install this let me know

FlipFlop · 28 Jun 2016 at 21:43

ANDARIAL said:
Just don`t upgrade to 5.2-5967 or above yet

Haha, ohhkay thanks dude. Maybe I'll leave it

ANDARIAL · 28 Jun 2016 at 21:45

5.2-5967 works but you lose power settings
Anything previous works fine.Have a read of this thread,lots of good info ,tis a bit long now though

div0 · 17 Jul 2016 at 11:08

I'm currently still running 5.1-5022 Update 5.

Should I be updating to 5.2-5967? And if so, is it ok to just do this from within Control Panel, using Update Now? Or do you need to go through all the new boot image stuff?

It's ages since I originally set this up and I totally haven't kept up to date with things.

BlizzardX · 17 Jul 2016 at 11:18

You'll need to grab the latest bootloader as this contains the patches for the security Synology employ to stop this sort of thing. Once done, then you can update to the latest 5.2 install; although I think if you use VPN then it doesn't quite work... The forum has more of what doesn't work!

ANDARIAL · 23 Jul 2016 at 12:02

Fix now available for 52-5967.1
Fixes the power/disk sleep problem
Installed and it LOOKS like it works.power option are available anyway

Only installed to box 2 atm just in case

BlizzardX · 24 Jul 2016 at 10:41

Yep, just updated mine directly on the box using the dd image command from command line, saves having to pull the USB and write it on the PC.

ANDARIAL · 24 Jul 2016 at 10:43

BlizzardX said:
Yep, just updated mine directly on the box using the dd image command from command line, saves having to pull the USB and write it on the PC.

After all the faffing around we had recently I pulled the usb from the inside and have plugged both into the outside front usb sockets

BlizzardX · 24 Jul 2016 at 10:50

Haha, I can't do that easily as mine is rackmounted in a case that isn't on sliders... yet, waiting for the final bits for my SM 836TQ SAS2 case then I can run that on sliders... but still will run the usb internally as this method seems to work quite well for the moment.

div0 · 1 Aug 2016 at 12:02

My volume 1 has crashed. Is there any way to fix a drive which is 'crashed' and get it working again?

Volume 1 is just a single drive (no redundancy etc). I believe it has simply crashed because it is full.

I can still read everything on the drive so no problems there. But I can't delete anything, as apparently it's all marked as read-only now?

There's nothing critical on the drive, which is why it's not part of an array and I'm happy that I could begin a long backup/restore process if needed. But if there's any way to get the volume working again, I'd rather not have the hassle of transfer times to restore the contents.

Any suggestions?

MehulLakhani · 1 Aug 2016 at 12:42

Hiya

Just did the upgrade this weekend from 4493 to 5697.1

Went flawlessly, just copied the serial no over to the sys.cfg file on the new usb boot stick, then the migrate manager asked me for DSM , which I took 5.2 from the synology website.

Is that what I should have done ?

R

Mehul

HungryHippos · 1 Aug 2016 at 23:11

FlipFlop said:
Hi guys, new to this thread.

I've been running Xpenology for 2 years and haven't dared do an update.

Is it worth doing an update at this time?

I'm finding that Sickbeard is increasingly letting me down and it simply will not get episodes that are missed meaning I'm needing to do it manually.

I actually just cancelled my newsdemon sub for the first time in 2 years as the server had stopped bringing in most of my series despite being subbed to dognzb and one other decent one.

I prefer Sonarr over Sickbeard - maybe worth trying it, similar principles but seems to handle things better. Heavier on CPU though.

I'd recommend 2-3 indexers, a main server account (I use Astra), along with a block account (Tweaknews here) or two as a backup if issues encountered with incompletes.

div0 · 3 Aug 2016 at 20:15

div0 said:
My volume 1 has crashed. Is there any way to fix a drive which is 'crashed' and get it working again?

Volume 1 is just a single drive (no redundancy etc). I believe it has simply crashed because it is full.

I can still read everything on the drive so no problems there. But I can't delete anything, as apparently it's all marked as read-only now?

There's nothing critical on the drive, which is why it's not part of an array and I'm happy that I could begin a long backup/restore process if needed. But if there's any way to get the volume working again, I'd rather not have the hassle of transfer times to restore the contents.

Any suggestions?

Anyone got any suggestions before I pull the plug, remove the drive and start restoring from backup?

BlizzardX · 3 Aug 2016 at 20:39

Have you tried booting in to a Linux pen drive and accessing the drive from there? Is it is just a simple ext4 drive with no special RAID feature attached (I'm assuming so as you state its a single drive).

If it is part of a raid array (for whatever reason and cat proc/mdstat via cli will tell you) then this command may make it read / write

mdadm --readwrite /dev/mdN - where N is the raid array number indicated from mdstat above.

div0 · 3 Aug 2016 at 21:52

Well that was all gobbledygook to me

I roughly follow what you were saying, but no I've not tried any of that and yes I believe it is just a simple ext4 drive.

If I put it in an external caddy, should I be able to access or reformat it that way?

Just in the process of moving the data over to another drive now. So once that's compete I'm hoping I can just wipe it and then try reformatting it to see if it's recognised as 'normal' again.

BlizzardX · 3 Aug 2016 at 22:02

ah ok, sorry

Yes, if the drive is just by its self then putting it in a caddy or another machine that can read that file system will allow access to it.

div0 · 3 Aug 2016 at 22:38

Good to know, thanks.

2013 · 6 Aug 2016 at 03:28

Can XPEnology be run inside windows or can i add the features to windows ?
Im currently using plex but I want to get more out of my setup, I don't use XPEnology or freenas because i don't know how to use linux beyond the simple tasks.