Unraid Secretary Office

Plugin from dropnook

Overview

Ten helpers for your Unraid server, right in its web UI: backups and restores, snapshots, a media cache for Emby, Jellyfin and Plex, a smart mover, a security watch, disk space and every log in one place. Hire only the ones you need. Backup: scheduled ZFS/btrfs snapshots, database dumps, one package per app and VM including XML, UEFI/TPM and templates. Optional encrypted offsite backup to S3 storage or a NAS (built on Kopia), or two Unraid servers keep each other's backups — only the changes travel, over your own network or the office's own Tailscale network (no port forwarding). Restore: databases, folders, whole shares, single files at any depth, templates and VMs — from the local snapshots, the offsite copy or the partner; the flash archive to download. What gets replaced is set aside, never deleted, and restore drills on throwaway copies prove the backups really come back. Every page shows protection by what the backups really made, not by the settings, and how long each copy is kept. A run with warnings names them in its notification. Snapshots: ZFS, btrfs and VM snapshots with schedules and simple retention. Media cache & mover: what people watch next in Emby, Jellyfin or Plex is fetched onto the fast pool within a budget in GB, so the array disks can sleep; who is watching what, live. The oldest files move to the array only when the pool is above your limit, and a live picture shows the joint run. Security & tidying: how securely the server stands, a watch book of anything unusual (sign-ins, plugins, far more data pulled than usual, UniFi and MikroTik routers too), every log in one place, and unused data cleared into a storeroom instead of deleted. Requires Unraid 7.3.2 or a newer 7.x (Unraid 8 is not supported yet). The backup's snapshots need pools or array disks on ZFS or btrfs (shares on XFS are backed up without a snapshot); partner offices need ZFS. Offsite copies need a Kopia container — the Consultant can install it. Nothing else to install: Jack Streamer works without Python 3 (where Python 3 is installed, his tools keep using it). Available in English, German, Italian, French and Spanish. License: GPL-3.0-or-later.

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A whole team supports you in running your Unraid server, right in Unraid's web UI: backups and restore, snapshots, a media cache for Emby, Jellyfin and Plex, a smart mover, a night watchman and every log in one place.

Product page · Full guide

Start with the Team Lead. He looks at your server and suggests whom to hire.

Backups that come back

Mr. Backupsy backs up on your schedule: snapshots, database dumps and, encrypted with Kopia, offsite — and shows how each share, app and VM is really protected and how long each copy is kept.
Mr. Restori brings back apps, VMs, whole shares or single files from any copy, hands you the flash archive — and rehearses it on throwaway copies.
A partner: with a second Unraid server running the office, you keep each other's backups — over your own network or the office's own Tailscale node.

A fast, tidy pool

Jack Streamer puts what you watch next in Emby, Jellyfin or Plex on the fast pool, within a budget in GB, so the array disks can sleep. Ms. Moverelli, with helmi1987's Smart Mover, takes the oldest files to the array only when the pool is above your limit. Both work in one joint run on your schedule, live to watch.

The Night Watchman

A round every five minutes; he only reads. What is unusual goes into his watch book: a sign-in from a new address, a new plugin, far more data pulled than usual, a new device on the LAN — and your router's log, if you like.

Also on the team: Ms. Snapshotini, Ms. Dustdevil, Ms. Protocolli and the Consultant. Five languages, Unraid's themes, search with ⌘K, on the phone too. The full guide walks through every desk.

Careful by design

Behind Unraid's login. Other web pages in your browser can't trigger anything.
Asks first. It shows what will happen before anything changes. What it replaces or tidies up is set aside, never deleted at once.
Your copies go where you send them: to your partner, or encrypted to a storage of your choice.
Partners stay independent. A partner accepts copies, nothing more — taken over, say by ransomware, it can't delete or overwrite anything on yours.
Only what the desks define. The service runs as root, but it offers only the actions written in the desks' code.
Shows what is really there. Protection comes from what the backups made, not from the settings; what couldn't be checked says so.
Checked: what was looked at and what it found, in HARDENING.md.

Install

Unraid 7.3.2 or a newer 7.x; snapshots need ZFS or btrfs. In Unraid, find Unraid Secretary Office in Apps (Community Applications), or go to Plugins → Install Plugin and paste:

https://github.com/dropnook/UnraidSecretaryOffice/releases/latest/download/unraid-secretary-office.plg

Then open Office in Unraid's menu bar (Sekretariat, Segreteria … when Unraid speaks another language); the Team Lead welcomes you. Updates come through Unraid's plugin manager either way.

Support

Questions, problems and wishes: in the Unraid forum thread, right in the office, no GitHub account needed (⋯ → Report a problem or a wish… — you see every part before it is sent), or GitHub issues. A tip is welcome.

Special thanks

Jack Streamer's tools MediaCache and media-disk-gather (folder consolidation) and Ms. Moverelli's Smart Mover are the work of helmi1987, GPL-3.0-or-later; they ship in mediacache/, gather/ and smartmover/, with our changes listed in their READMEs. Thank you — a share of the tips goes to him.

The syslog rules of Ms. Protocolli come from Enhanced Log by dlandon and Derek Kaser (EDACerton), GPL-2.0-or-later (used here under GPL-3.0-or-later); they ship unchanged in agent/desks/logs-rules/. Thank you.

License

License: GPL-3.0-or-later. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. It is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; see LICENSE.

No warranty for your backups either. A backup can be faulty or incomplete. You stay responsible for your data: test a restore now and then (Mr. Restori's drill helps), and keep more than one copy, for example 3-2-1.

Unraid is a trademark of Lime Technology, Inc. Unraid Secretary Office is an independent project and not affiliated with it.