An office for your Unraid server
A whole team supports you in running your Unraid server: backups and restore, snapshots, a media cache for Emby, Jellyfin and Plex, the mover, a night watchman and every log in one place.
Meet the team
A fresh office has only 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, off-site.
Mr. Restori brings back apps, VMs, whole shares or a single file from any copy, and hands you the flash archive. He rehearses it on throw-away copies.
A second Unraid server with the office becomes a partner: you keep each other’s backups, over your own network or the office’s own Tailscale node.
The pool: fast and tidy
Jack Streamer puts on the pool what you watch next in Emby, Jellyfin or Plex — a GB budget per person — and gives back what was watched. The array disks may sleep.
Ms. Moverelli adds helmi1987’s Smart Mover to Unraid’s mover: only when the pool is above your limit does she take the oldest files to the array.
Both 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, a new device on the LAN — and your router’s log, if you like.
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.
- Says what is really there. Protection comes from what the backups made, not from the settings.
- Checked: what was looked at and what it found, in HARDENING.md.
Install
In Unraid, go to Plugins → Install Plugin and paste this address. Unraid 7.3.2 or a newer 7.x; snapshots need ZFS or btrfs.
https://github.com/dropnook/UnraidSecretaryOffice/releases/latest/download/unraid-secretary-office.plg
Five languages, Unraid’s themes, search with ⌘K, on the phone too. Plus Ms. Snapshotini, Ms. Dustdevil, Ms. Protocolli and the Consultant. · Full guide on GitHub
Questions
Does a tip unlock anything?
No. Every feature is in the plugin from the start; a tip is welcome and brings a supporter key that only says thank you.
Do I have to hire the whole team?
No. The Team Lead suggests who fits your server, and you hire whom you need.
What do I need for off-site backups?
Kopia in a container — the Consultant installs it with you — or a second Unraid server with the office as a partner (ZFS).
Can a partner server be in another home?
Yes. Both offices can join the USO network — a Tailscale node of the office’s own. Only the partner door is reachable through it; no port forwarding, and nothing of your router or your own Tailscale changes.
Does it wake my sleeping disks?
No, unless you want it to.
Where do I report a problem or a wish?
Right in the office, no GitHub account needed: ⋯ → Report a problem or a wish… — you see every part before it is sent. Or on GitHub.