Zack's Random Thoughts...: February 2020

ASRock Z370 Gaming-ITX/ac + Intel i9-9900k Overclock

By Zack - February 29, 2020

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How to do a Backdoor Roth IRA

By Zack - February 20, 2020

To avoid the Pro-Rata Tax rule, roll any SEP-IRA, SIMPLE IRA, traditional IRA, or rollover IRA money into a 401K, 403B, or Individual 401K. 401Ks don’t count in the aforementioned pro-rata calculation. You might even be able to open an Individual 401K at Fidelity or eTrade (the Vanguard Individual 401K doesn’t accept IRA rollovers) in order to facilitate a Backdoor Roth IRA

The total sum of the SEP-IRA, SIMPLE IRA, and traditional IRA accounts on December 31st of the year should be $0.

If you don't have any of these accounts yet, great!
Deposit the yearly Roth IRA limit into your traditional IRA
Convert the traditional IRA to a Roth IRA
Once tax time comes, fill out form 8606 (one form for each spouse)

If you don’t do it right, you’ll pay taxes twice on your Backdoor Roth IRA contribution.

Repeat the following year

You do not have to wait any period of time between the contribution and conversion. Each year, I make my Traditional IRA contribution on January 2, then convert to a Roth IRA the next day. That gets my investment money working as soon as possible and simplifies the record keeping. Vanguard won’t let you do it the same day, so I have to wait one day anyway.

Page 1 (below) shows a “distribution” from your non-deductible IRA. Since the money was already taxed, the taxable amount on your distribution is zero. Line 1 is your non-deductible contribution. On Line 2, your basis is zero because you had no money in a traditional IRA on December 31 of last year (if you’ve been carrying a non-deductible IRA for years this may not be zero.) Line 6 is zero in a typical year. Note that Turbotax may fill this out a little differently (may leave lines 6-12 blank) but you end up with the same thing. Line 13 is the same as line 3, so tax due is zero.

On page 2 (below), you are showing the Roth conversion. I’m not really sure why you have to do this twice (since you’re just transferring the amounts from lines 8 and 11 and then subtracting them), but that’s what the form calls for. As you can see, a Roth conversion of a non-deductible traditional IRA contribution without any gains is a taxable event, it’s just that the tax bill is zero for it.

When double-checking your tax-preparer’s work, you want to concentrate on lines 2, 14, 15c, and 18, and make sure they’re a very small amount, like zero, and not a very large amount, like $5500.

https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/backdoor-roth-ira-tutorial/

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UnRAID Tips and Tricks - Setup, Plugins, Docker-Containers (Plex, Tautulli, Deluge, Sonarr, Radarr, Jackett, Rclone, Krusader)

By Zack - February 12, 2020

Unraid Official Wiki

For more 1 on 1 help Click here

Steps to Setup for initial setup

Download Unraid
Open the USB Creator to set up Unraid on your flash drive (1GB minimum to Max 32GB)

Click 'Customize' to give your Unraid server a name
Give it a Static IP if you desire

Reboot and set BOOT to the flash drive in the BIOS
Once booted up, it should display a 192.168.x.x IP Address.

You can enter in the browser either the IP Address or the Server name (Http://Tower)

Install community Plugins (paste into URL address bar in the install plugin section)

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Squidly271/community.applications/master/plugins/community.applications.plg
This will add an apps tab. Search for preclear and install it.

Preclear any new drives (10TB drives could take 1-2 days. A trial key isn't needed for this so this can be done on any computer or laptop.)
Main tab

Assign Parity Drive (Must be as large as your biggest Data Drive)
Add your NVME M.2 under Cache Devices (format if needed)

Assign appdata Cache= Prefer
system, domains share to Cache = Prefer
Stop your dockers / VMs in case you have any running
To the current data to the cache, click 'Move Now' at the bottom of the 'Main' page that will invoke the Mover.
Mover will never move files in use.. so it's best to stop your current dockers before invoking the Mover.

Once drives are added check the box at the bottom and format the drives since they will say they are 'Unmountable: No file system'

Set SMB Security Settings for User Shares/appdata/domains/isos/system to Yes(hidden)

This will hide the shares from the Windows Network (but you can still access by typing the share name in the address bar. \\sharename
If you set to private, you can assign specific users access to each individual share

Set SMB Security Settings for Flash Drive (under Main tab) to No
Create your shares to be able to individually set settings for Disk Use, Cache Use & Split Level

Here's an image of all my shares and Cache Settings
Movies, TV, Family, Backups, Downloads shares

Split Level 1 for each share apart from TV which will use Split Level 2.

This would allow the Movie folders to be placed on every disk and keeps each individual movie folder as well as each TV Show season on a single disk.
The share itself is the top level. Top level means anything contained INSIDE the top level folder will be potentially split up. Nothing beyond that level will be split further.
Top two means anything INSIDE the second folder in the structure will be potentially split up. Nothing beyond that level will be split further

Use cache disk: Yes on each share.

Settings Tab

Disk Settings

Enable Auto-Start = Yes

Display Settings

Header Custom BG Color: 000000
Dynamix Color Theme: Black

Docker

Enable Docker = Yes

Scheduler

Set Mover schedule to a time you're asleep like 3:00am.

Docker-Containers

CA Appdata Auto Update | CA Appdata Backup/Restore v2 | CA Appdata Cleanup |CA Fix Common Problems (Plugins)

Settings → Auto Update Applications

Set Both tabs to YES to auto update

Settings → Backup/Restore Appdata

Source: /mnt/cache/appdata/

Destination: /mnt/user/Backups/appdata

Use Compression? Yes

USB Backup Destination: /mnt/user/Backups/Flash Drive/

Make sure schedule isn't conflicting with Auto-Update

Appdata Cleanup

Dynamix SSD Trim

SSD Trim: Settings → Scheduler→ SSD TRIM schedule → Daily → Time of day → Apply

Dynamix System Temp

Install Dyamix System Temp Plugin
Install the Nerdpack Plugin → Turn Perl On → Hit Apply
Check System Temp via Settings → System Temp → Detect → Apply

This will create the file /config/plugins/dynamix.system.temp/sensors.conf on your flash device.
Enable the sensors → View them on the dashboard

Turn off Perl → Hit apply
Plugins → Nerdtools → Remove

Full Volume and Port Mappings (/data/ should be mapped to /mnt/user/Downloads)

Plex

path = /mnt/user/
container path: /media
Config Path: /mnt/cache/appdata/binhex-plexpass/
Click Apply.
Open Webgui

Add Media
Go to settings and adjust Users & Sharing, Make sure Remote Access is Green, Transcoder → make sure hardware acceleration is enabled

Enabling Intel Quick Sync

Connect a dummy video plug into your motherboard
Enable Onboard Video in your BIOS settings
Open Terminal from main Unraid page
modprobe i915
cd /dev/dri
ls

You should see the expected items ie. card0 and renderD128

chmod -R 777 /dev/dri
Edit Plex Docker Container

Add another port, path

Config Type: Device
Name: /dev/dri
Value: /dev/dri

Play a stream and change its quality to something that isn't its original format
Check the Now Playing section to see if Hardware Acceleration is enabled.
On Reboot unRAID will not run those commands again unless we put it in our go file. So when ready type into terminal:

nano /boot/config/go

Add these lines to the bottom

Ctrl + X → Y → Enter (to save modifications)

Tautulli

Web UI: Insert UNRAID IP:8181
Plex Logs Location: /mnt/cache/appdata/binhex-plexpass/Plex Media Server/Logs/
Config Location: /mnt/cache/appdata/tautulli/

Deluge-VPN

Host Path 2: /mnt/user/Downloads/
Config Path: /mnt/cache/appdata/binhex-delugevpn
VPN = YES
Enter Username/Password for PIA
ENABLE_PRIVOXY = Yes
LAN: 192.168.x.0/24
Download PIA OpenVPN Files
Pick a server that allows Port Forwarding - PIA
Delete the rest of the files and copy the files to /appdata/binhex-delugeVPN/openvpn
Start the Deluge Docker again (should be green now)
Launch WebUI, password = deluge
In the connection manager make sure you connect to the daemon
Preferences

Bandwidth → Max Per Torrent Upload Speed 500 (KiB/s)
Download to: /data/incomplete
Move completed to: /data/completed

Sonarr/Radarr (same setup on each pretty much)

Radarr Wiki

Add Movies, Import Movie
Adjust quality settings

Change 'Delay Profiles ' to Only Torrents. at the bottom

Connections

Add Slack Connection
Create a webhook in your Discord Server
Copy the webshook URL into the Slack Connection but append '/slack' at the end of the URL.
Type the name of the webhook into the 'Username'
Click test.

Indexers (I have since added each indexer from Jackett individually since if you add them all and 1 fails, they all fail.)

Radarr

Add Torznab [Custom]
URL: http://192.168.x.x:9117
API Path: /api/V2.0/indexers/all/results/torznab/
Add API key from Jackett
Test → Save
To manually Import(Move / rename) go to Wanted → Manually Import

Sonarr

Add Torznab [Custom]
URL: http://192.168.x.x:9117/api/V2.0/indexers/all/results/torznab/
Categories: 5030,5040,5045
Add API key from Jackett
Test → Save

Profiles

Radarr - I've set my cutoff to 2160p x265. For plex you'll want to customize it to whichever encoding suits your player needs.

Issues I've ran into:

"Import failed, path does not exist or is not accessible by Radarr"

Solution:

Jackett

Config Path: /mnt/cache/appdata/binhex-jackett/
Add all the indexers you like via the web gui
Copy the API Key to use in both Sonarr / Radarr

Rclone (Google Drive encrypted remote)

Install rclone beta plugin
Install CA Scripts Plugin
Enter Terminal
Type the following commands

rclone config
n → New Remote
gdrive → Name of Remote
13 → 'Google Drive' not Google Cloud Storage
1 → Full Access
enter
enter
n → For advanced config
n → For auto config
Go the link and make sure you sign in using the google drive account
Copy the key to the terminal
n → Don't configure as a Team Drive
y → gdrive remote is setup

New Remote

n
secure
10 → Encrypt / Decrypt rmote
gdrive:secure
2 → Encrypt Filenames
1 → Encrypt Directory
g → 1024 → Generates Encryption password → Write it down or save to your password manager
g → generate Salt Password → 1024
y
q

rlcone lsd gdrive:

Lists what's inside the gdrive remote
Make sure it's empty since the flag '--allow-non-empty' currently doesn't support fusermount which doesn't support the FUSE option
Mount the gdrive mount to Unraid (mnt/disks)

File → edit → Mount Script
Delete the script at the right and add

#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p /mnt/disks/gdrive
mkdir -p /mnt/disks/secure
rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other gdrive: /mnt/disks/gdrive &
rclone mount --max-read-ahead 1024k --allow-other secure: /mnt/disks/secure &

Apply → Move to User Scripts

Unmount Script

#!/bin/bash
fusermount -u /mnt/disks/gdrive

Settings → User Scripts → Should now show the Mount / Unmount scripts

For the rclone_mount_plugin → Run in Background
Schedule → Mount Script → At startup of array,
Unmount → At Stopping of array
Cron job for a custom daily schedule that runs at midnight:

0 0 0 1/1 * ? *

Creating network share from an rclone mount

Stop Array
Settings → SMB → Paste into SMB Extras
[secure-cloud]
path = /mnt/disks/secure
comment =
browseable = yes
# Public
public = yes
writeable = yes
vfs objects =
Start Array

Making your own client_id

When you use rclone with Google drive in its default configuration you are using rclone’s client_id. This is shared between all the rclone users. There is a global rate limit on the number of queries per second that each client_id can do set by Google. rclone already has a high quota and I will continue to make sure it is high enough by contacting Google.
It is strongly recommended to use your own client ID as the default rclone ID is heavily used. If you have multiple services running, it is recommended to use an API key for each service. The default Google quota is 10 transactions per second so it is recommended to stay under that number as if you use more than that, it will cause rclone to rate limit and make things slower.
https://rclone.org/drive/#making-your-own-client-id
Instructions aren't totally updated so you might have to click Oauth Consent Screen on the left and create it in there.

Un-encrypt Content from your cloud provider

To view your content you can always run:

rclone ls secure:/
rclone lsd secure:/

To move/copy your encrypted content I use this command:

rclone move secure:/Backups gdrive:/Backups --delete-empty-src-dirs -v -P

This will copy the encrypted content to my gdrive Backup folder and then delete the file on the encrypted remote that got moved. The files will be readable now on google drive

Helpful Commands

rclone config file (shows where the config file is located)
rclone sync --dryrun source destination
rclone check /mnt/user/Movies secure:/Movies -v --size-only
rclone check /mnt/user/TV secure:/TV -v --size-only
kill $(ps aux | grep '[r]clone' | awk '{print $2}') → Terminates all running rclone processes.
Helpful flags

--fast-list
--max-transfers=750G (for google drive 750GB/day limit)
--bwlimit=8M ~ (750GB/day = 8680 kb/sec)
--max-upload=750G
--dry-run ~ Allows you to see what will happen without physically moving or syncing anything
-v (Verbose - Allows you to see output, -vv for more output)
--log-file=/mnt/user/Backups/Rclone/Backups.log (generates an automated log file to your backup folder)
-P (Progress)

Krusader (file explorer)

Docker Container Info

https://i.imgur.com/xvceQFA.png

Once loaded click the two '..' to go back to the path you want
Add the queue filter to be able to queue file transfers Settings → Edit Toolbars → Add over Job Queue Mode

Path Mapping

Shinobi + Eufy Camera Settings

Share Settings

Since I'm storing my footage on my m.2 ssd (lots of writes/reads)

Docker App Settings
Shinobi Settings

Stream: HLS, Copy, Copy
Recording MP4, Copy, Copy

Re-Build Docker Image in a new Cache Drive

Re-Build Docker Image in a new Cache Drive

Settings → Docker → Enable = No
Check: Delete Image File
Apply → Done
Settings → Docker → Yes → Apply → Done
Docker → 'my' means your old docker config is already in them → Click Template Name → Apply → Done

FAQ:

Why is my network Upload or Download usage so high?

Check with the Plugin Netdata
To see PID's, Open the terminal and type: netstat -tupe
To see individual ports, install NerdPack → iftop

In the terminal type iftop -i eth -P changing eth to your network interface name

Unable to login to server? DHCP IP Address or Static won't grab? 'Bonding Error'

Try a new flash drive
Try to manually install the flash drive instead of using the automated software

Adding HDD to Array: Shut off computer → Plug in extra drives → Turn on NAS → Preclear new drives → take array offline --→ Add extra drives to array → Turn on array
Increasing Parity Size: Install higher Storage HDD, Unassign Parity Drive, Assign higher storage HDD to Parity Slot, Assign Previous Parity Drive to an open slot, Click copy at the bottom to copy the Parity info over
Unraid Banner Size for 1440p Monitor: 2560 x 100
For some reason /mnt/user/appdata/ causes dB corruption but /mnt/cache/appdata/ doesn’t (assuming your appdata is on the cache disk).
Cache isn't protected by PARITY so be careful putting anything important on there

Useful Videos:

Useful Linux Commands

To change user/group of a folder/file:

chown -R user:group */file of folder/

Set default owner and group on a file

chown user
chgrp nobody
chmod 644

List files with groups/users/permissions

ls -l

Delete a file or folder

rm -r
rm = remove, rf = recursive forced

Make Directory

mkdir

Stripping Windows ACL's from folders (recursively)

find . -type d -exec setfacl -b {} \;

To change permissions of a folder/file:

chmod -R 777 */file or folder/

List your disks

lsblk

Mounting a flash drive

mount /dev/* /mnt/usb

ps aux

a = show processes for all users
u = display the process's user/owner
x = also show processes not attached to a terminal

Look for specific process (daemon)

ps aux | grep

To kill a process directly once you have PID from ps aux

kill -9

Show top running processes real-time

top (q to quit)

Visual top

htop (q to quit)

List Disk Space

df -h

List folder usage on disk

du -h /path/to/directory

List system information

uname -a

Display a text based file

See a history of commands you’re typed

history

Find text within output results

ls -al | find . -name “” -print

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