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An encrypted array and cache are good, but if you're not careful, the secrets in your Docker containers could be the key to your data.

For example, if you used the same password for the array as you did for a database. Your container settings are stored unencrypted on your boot medium. The config/plugins/dockerMan/templates-user directory contains XML files that hold all your container settings. If you want to store these securely, there’s a simple trick. Create a folder named secrets on the cache, preferably in the appdata folder. There, create a <name>.env file for each container that contains sensitive information. Let’s take kopia.env as an example (Kopia is a backup tool, anyone with the key contained within it can decrypt your backup.). In this file, write the variables from your container that you want to store securely.

KOPIA_PASSWORD=SuperSecretPassword123#

In the container’s settings in Unraid, you can then simply do the following. Delete the KOPIA_PASSWORD variable completely, it’s no longer needed. Instead, have the container load the .env file from the cache as follows. Go to the container, click Edit, and then in the Advanced View, enter the following under Extra Parameters:

--env-file=/mnt/user/appdata/secrets/kopia.env

Your container does NOT need access to this folder as the host system is providing the file to the container while starting.

When the container starts up, it now reads KOPIA_PASSWORD from the .env file, so the data is no longer stored in plain text on your boot partition. You can include as many variables as you like, one per line, in the .env file.

To check if the variables were read successfully you can go to the containers console and just input env to it. It will list up all variables and those from the .env file should be there.

There are other ways to use /run/secrets/, but they don't work for every container or application. The solution above is foolproof. It would be great if there were a native Unraid solution for Docker secrets in the future, but until then, you can do it this way.

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Is it true that the ZRAM Compressed Memory plugin lets you store a swap file on a multi-device BTRFS pool (like RAID1)? Normally, that's not possible. Apparently, a loop device is inserted first, so the system thinks it's writing swap to a single, simple drive rather than a multi-device filesystem. This does add some overhead, but my only real concern is making sure the server doesn't crash from an OOM event in an absolute emergency. Upgrading from 16 to 32 GB of RAM isn't feasible right now given current prices, so I have to get creative. I've managed just fine with the RAM so far, but there's no shortage of things to run on my little N100 server, and I usually hover around 4 GB of free memory. I've had one OOM crash before when I was testing a local mini AI for Paperless and also had another resource-intensive container running.

Does anyone have this up and running and can share their experiences?

So im sitting on this pile of videos and photos. There is everything you can imagine. Pictures from birthdays, parties, vacations, family photos, just random stuff from my phone, screenshots, WhatsApp memes, and mixed in with some of that are 20-minute-long 4K videos and more. Here are the specs. How would you go about importing all of this into immich? I once made the mistake of just throwing everything in and letting it run, it was total chaos, and it would have taken me years to organize everything. Right now, it’s sorted into folders, but over the years (including photos from 200X), some metadata has been lost (don’t ask me how), and the photos are no longer sorted correctly by creation date when importing.

Would it be better to import each folder step by step, tag them accordingly, add them to an immich album, and then move on to the next one? Or what do the experts here say is the most efficient way to import everything as quickly as possible?

Right now, I just have everything in Google Photos, but they always want more money, and that's not necessary if you have suitable servers at home.

Specs:
Total occupied space: 2.68 TB
in 3515 folders and 95,154 files

template:
what to backup?
follow 3-2-1, how?
software?
how often?
data volume?
pain points or limitations?
cost per month?
special about your solution?

what to backup? Unraid flash + containers/appdata + files/folders (like paperless-data or photos)
follow 3-2-1? yes (local backup, USB hdd and hetzner storage box via sftp/ssh)
software? bombvault(restic) for unraid flash/containers/appdata, kopia for random files/folders
how often? local backups and cloud weekly, USB hdd every few month
data volume? 100GB flash/container/appdata, 3TB files/folders
pain points or limitations? Low egress speed of hetzner storage box.
cost per month? 13€ for 5TB of cloudstorage (hetzner)
special about your solution? ease of use of bombvault for example one click docker recovery, automatic cloud replication and data integrity checks, Block-level deduplication with compression to save space for both bombvault and kopia, everything is encrypted

Spotify? 12,99€. Youtube Premium? 14,99€. Netflix? 13,99. Neues Game? 69,99€ etc.

Da geht ganz schön was durch wenn man medial gut aufgestellt sein will. Jetzt gibts es natürlich bei einigen Diensten wie Spotify oder Youtube die kostenlose Variante in denen man mit Werbung zugeballert wird. Schön ist anders aber in der Not...

Neulich bin ich über die Website fmhy .net gestolpert und habe mir zum Ziel gesetzt für meinen Medienkonsum, wo möglich, auf eine schwarze 0 zu kommen, wenn es um meine Ausgaben dafür geht.
Los ging es bei mir erstmal mit einem neu kompilierten Spotify Client mit Tweaks für Werbefreiheit als auch einem gleichartigen Youtube Client. So gesehen schonmal 28€ gespart.

Was sind eure Tricks um in der heutigen "You'll own nothing and be happy"-Welt zurecht zu kommen? Testangebot Hopping, VPN Deals, Cashback Aktionen, Account Sharing...

>Disclaimer: Ich spreche hier nicht von strafrechtlich relevanten Handlungen sondern von legalen Tricks und Möglichkeiten die Kosten zu umgehen. Dass dies nicht im Sinne der Anbieter ist sollte klar sein, aber entscheidend ist ja das Gesetzt, nicht die Wünsch und AGB der Anbieter.

KI Zusammenfassung des Threads:

Bibliotheken & Digitale Leihe

• Stadtbücherei: Für sehr geringe Jahresgebühren (ca. 7–20 €) Zugang zu Büchern, Hörbüchern, Brettspielen, Konsolenspielen (z. B. Switch, PS5) sowie Magazinen und Zeitungen.
• Onleihe & Libby: Digitale Ausleihe von E-Books, Hörbüchern und Zeitschriften direkt per App – teils auch über überregionale Bibliotheken (z. B. Berlin, Hamburg) nutzbar.
• Erweiterte Datenbanken: Viele Bibliotheken bieten kostenfreien Zugriff auf Plattformen wie Statista, LinkedIn Learning oder eGenios.

Streaming & Medienkonsum

• Abo-Hopping: Streaming-Dienste (Netflix, Disney+) nur für einzelne Monate buchen, wenn konkrete Inhalte geschaut werden sollen, und sofort wieder kündigen.
• Direktbuchung statt App Store: Abos direkt über die Webseiten der Anbieter abschließen, um den Apple- bzw. App-Store-Aufschlag (bis zu 30 %) zu vermeiden.
• Öffentlich-Rechtliche Mediatheken: Kostenfreie Nutzung von Film-, Serien- und Dokumentationsangeboten über ARD, ZDF u. a.
• Vergünstigte Abos via Ausland/VPN: Nutzung von Familienabos oder regional günstigeren Abomodellen im Ausland (z. B. über VPN) für Dienste wie YouTube Premium, Spotify, Disney+ oder Crunchyroll.

Software & Adblocker (Werbefreiheit)

• Adblocker im Browser: Nutzung von Firefox mit uBlock Origin oder dem Brave Browser, um Werbung auf Webseiten und Plattformen wie YouTube effektiv zu filtern.
• Spezielle App-Clients & Modifikationen:
  • SmartTube: Alternative App für Android TV / Fire TV Stick für werbefreies YouTube.
  • YouTube ReVanced / Morphe / NewPipe: Alternative Android-Clients bzw. Patcher für werbefreies YouTube und YouTube Music inklusive Hintergrundwiedergabe.
  • SpotC++ / XManager: Modifizierte Spotify-Clients zur Umgehung von Werbung.

Videospiele

• Steam Family Sharing: Teilen der eigenen Spielebibliothek mit bis zu fünf weiteren Accounts in einer Steam-Familie.
• Key-Seiten & Bundle-Angebote: Kauf von Game-Keys über Preisvergleichsseiten oder Nutzung von Paketen wie Humble Bundle.
• Gratis-Spiele: Regelmäßige Angebote für kostenlose Spiele auf Plattformen wie Epic Games Store, Steam oder Amazon Prime Gaming.

Eigenes Hosting & Lokale Medien

• Eigene Mediensammlung: Musik und Filme als lokale Dateien auf Geräten speichern, um Streaming-Kosten und mobiles Datenvolumen zu sparen.
• Selbstgehostete Server: Einrichten eigener Medienserver (z. B. mit Jellyfin, Unraid oder der Arr-Suite) für die Verwaltung und den Stream eigener Medieninhalte im Heimnetzwerk.

Anyone knowing a way to have something like subfolders for folderview? Another plugin or css hack?

EDIT: found it. "Folderview Plus" is capable of this.

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ATTENTION: AFTER ASKING THE DEV WHY CODE WAS OBFUSCATED HE IS NOW ACTIVLY DELETING EVERYTHING.

Hey guys,

I ran into AirVault (an Unraid app for local iPhone backups) and while the idea is awesome, a few things raised red flags for me:

• It's completely closed-source: The GitHub repo (airvault/airvault) is basically just an empty Unraid template. The actual code is shipped as a pre-compiled Docker image.
• Requires Host Networking (--net=host): Makes sense for mDNS/Bonjour, but giving a closed-source container full access to my network—while it processes unencrypted phone backups—feels super risky.
• Zero transparency: The website (airvault.cloud) has no imprint/contact info, and the dev account (wizier) barely has any history on GitHub.

An iPhone backup contains literally everything (photos, chats, tokens, location history). Running mystery code with host networking to handle all that data seems like a huge leap of faith.

Has anyone talked to the dev or poked around this? What open-source tools are you guys using for local iOS backups instead?

Vorweg: Keine echte Steuerberatung, theoretischer Fall zur Übung.

Hilde ist 72 Jahre alt, bekommt 650€ Rente und arbeitet nebenher für einen Pflegedienst 12h die Woche wo sie nochmal etwa 1000€ bekommt. Nach neuster Regelung (Aktivrente) darf sie 2000€ steuerfrei aus sozialabgabenpflichtigen Tätigkeiten dazuverdienen.

Da sie sonst nicht zurecht kommt verkauft sie auf einer Onlineplattform gebrauchte Textilien (Tischdecken, Bettwäsche etc.), die sie kostenlos bekommt. Sie sortiert die Textilien und verkauft für 2-5€ pro Teil die noch brauchbaren Stücke online. Damit mach sie etwa 800€ pro Monat.

Der Verkauft findet regelmäßig (50-300 Verkäufe pro Monat) mit Gewinnerzielungsabsicht statt.

Welche Möglichkeiten hat Hilde um ihre Steuerabgaben zu minimieren?

My Unraid server greeted me with the following email.

Event: Docker high image disk utilization
Subject: Warning [Tower] - Docker image disk utilization of 84%
Description: Docker utilization of image file /mnt/cache/system/docker-xfs.img
Importance: warning

I knew there had to be a problem here, since I hadn't installed any new containers in weeks and had generously sized my Docker image file at 50 GB.

First, I went to the Docker tab to click the “Container size” button at the bottom and check how large the container images are and how much writable data and logs they have stored.

With 37 containers, the images totaled 28 GB—some were small, some were large, which is normal. The writable data was only 1.5 GB, and the logs were 700 MB. So there was no problem here.

So I switched to the terminal and entered the following command:

docker system df -v

Here you can check the sizes of images, writable, and logs again, but most importantly, you can also check the size of volumes at the very bottom at "Local Volumes space usage:". And that was the problem in my case.

There was an image containing 14 GB of data. I navigated to the volume at var/lib/docker/volumes/<volume ID>/_data and checked what data was stored there. It turned out to be transcoding data from Jellyfin.

If it's not clear in your case you can check containers with the following command if they are using the specific local image:

docker inspect <containerID>

You should find it it in the "Mounts" section of the inspect outcome. Look for the ID of the local image.

It turned out that in Jellyfin's settings, the cache folder was simply set to /cache without a host folder for /cache being mounted to the container in the docker settings. As a result, Docker simply created a new volume for the Jellyfin cache during transcoding and moved the data there. It was not visible as writable data though at "Container size".

My solution was to manually delete the image and then mount a folder on an SSD for the /cache directory in Jellyfin.

Finally, I cleaned a few more MB up using

docker image prune

and

docker volume prune

This deletes all images and volumes that aren't currently assigned to a container. It doesn't matter whether the container is running or stopped, so it will not delete any data that is in use. Only if the corresponding container was deleted. Be sure to read up on these commands in more detail before you just go ahead and use them on your systems. Do NOT use "docker system prune" as this will also delete stopped containers.

Normally, in a perfect setup, these local images shouldn't be present at the very bottom of the list at all. Sometimes, however, only minimal temporary data is stored here that doesn't bother anyone. In my case, for example, searxng stores 1.3 MB here. In general, though, this means that the containers want to store data but there is no mapping to the host system for the location where they want to do so, therefore they request a local image from the Docker system to store the data there. So if it’s likely that more data will be stored here, you should check whether it would be better to create a mapping to the host system for the container.

My native language is German, and I absolutely hate songs in my own language. For me, music is a form of art, and all of that art gets lost for me when I listen to music in my native tongue. It’s like reading a poem analysis instead of the poem itself. It’s not that I don’t understand the lyrics of English music, but I just can’t stand songs in my own language. Because of this, I wanted to ask how people whose native language is English feel about this. Do you also prefer listening to foreign music, or do you actually prefer English music?