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The next test will Be Win7. After that, maybe, Win 8.2 on UEFI. But that would mean risking a micro-pc, with a notebook drive, that I don't have a replacement for. (Without a 2nd 2.5" notebook drive for the test, I'd be running a risk.)

I can send you one across the pond I have a few 70Gb 2.5" I pulled from some laptops that were written off.

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I have Emby installed and running in DOCKER but it's not working or, more accurately, it's doing something "weird". I successfully attached Emby to a music share. When I play a song, the controls bar comes up and immediately drops, without a sound. After playing with it a bit, I did the "auto mix". What I saw then was the player cycling through song titles at the rate of 1 or 2 a second, as if it was playing them really fast. Again, not a sound. I downloaded Emby theater (as if a client would be better than a Web window). The behavior was the same. Have you seen this before?

I have just tested this, whilst I have my music on omv I have never added it to Emby's library on this build....it does play if I connect to Emby from say chrome, but I can't get the music to shuffle not even if I create a playlist.
My Emby usage is through Kodi on a Pi 2B there is a Kodi sync plugin for Emby, that way it works perfectly as it uses the Kodi player + I can control Kodi from the iPhone app.
I can also get music to play and shuffle using vlc and just point to the Music samba share, it also works on our PS3 using dlna, this uses the PS3 player and it shuffles tracks with the info being displayed on the TV.
TBH I've never used any of the 'addons' i.e. theatre etc as there are other ways of streaming, I've used Emby as a backend for Kodi. I did try Docker, but when I moved to v3 I used the apt tool which works perfectly, even the updates come through.

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I hadn't thought of getting a used 2.5" drive for a test, but it's a good idea. I couldn't ask you to mail me a drive from over there... I'd be afraid they'll levy a "Yankee" tax on you at the post office, because you'd be sending something to one of the Colony's. (And there's Trump and all that.)

I checked and the UEFI client I mentioned is Win8.1 with "Bing" (another invasion of privacy), and it appears that 43GB of the 500GB drive is used. I looked on Ebay and found used 80GB models for $9USD delivered, but I went "upscale" with a 120GB OEM refurb for $14! (10.82 sterling) Since I use that pint sized box for nothing but streaming, if the UrBackup restore works, the incoming 120GB drive will stay in it. I can use the 500GB for something else.

TBH I did wonder if there would be any tax, the wife exchanges gifts at christmas with her school penpal, sometimes we have to pay an import duty and vat sometimes we don't it's never consistent year on year.

Dumping WHS may not be a bad idea I've always realized that Linux based options are a better choice once you get to understand them. I've just installed virtualbox to have a look...seems to have errored due to a newer version and it wants an optical drive to install an O/S....disconnected that to use the sata port...may hove to install the usb extras to get my usb dvd to work....but I've just installed it so I have plenty of time to work it out....added to that the notifications have decided to stop working....other than that it's all good

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Geaves;
Awhile back you said you were going to put something on the forum, for an opinion, regarding something IT related you were doing at the school. You said it became, or was becoming, "political". So, what was that all about? Is it still in progress?

This is now dead and buried...the school have decided to move their support elsewhere....oddly enough to a company I had suggested to the school for Audio Video....appears the school are going to put all their eggs in one basket and use them for everything.
Can't complain considering what the school had to what they have now, I think was a major achievement although the head then was more receptive.....this one is tactile...likes to point to something with the 'look what we have done' while the backend goes down the toilet, unless it affects her, it's irrelevant.

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I'm heading out. If you don't figure out the Host optical drive connection, I'll send a screen shot or two when I get back in a few days.

Sorted!! not sure how many times I made an attempt at this, and I discovered my server box has a virtualisation option, so it's not just been about research for VB but I did some on my server box...so it's looking good. I've installed W7 purely to see if it would work, but the server could do with an extra 4Gb of ram which would give it 8Gb in total.

I wanted to experiment with this to see I could lose a machine, so I could have MInt running on a laptop and perhaps Windows running on a VM, the only thing I can't get to work at present is the display to fit on the full screen, the Screen resolution is running at 1280x768 it has a setting to run at 1280x1024 which would take up the whole monitor but I can't get it work. Having googled the obvious according to what I have found there is supposed to be a 'menu' at the top of the running vm....but not on mine this should allow me to change this 'on the fly'....but initially I'm pleased I've got it running, certainly different to Microsoft Hyper-V but it does the same job.
Presently it's installing 202 updates with probably another 200 to go

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However that error may not, actually, be a problem with UrBackup. In restoring a GPT partition table, and attempting to write it, UrBackup may have been expecting a 500GB drive. (That makes sense from a partitioning and disaster recovery point of view.)

That's highly probable, if memory serves me correctly you can restore/re image from a small drive to a larger one but not vice versa. To get that to work you have to reduce the size of partition on the 500Gb to less than the 120Gb and it should work, but isn't that a restriction of 'bare metal' backup/restore? I know with W10 I use Macrium Reflect and for that I do a 'clone' backup.

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Maybe I can find something cheap but usable from Ebay,, again....

Possibly, but I think what you are trying to do may not be possible using UrBackup, the clone route appears to be the only option....however I was curious about what you were trying to do and found this the reply by Malte Skoruppa goes into great detail and is backed up further down.

Another option might be to use a Clonzilla Live CD, I've never used it but it does have the ability to clone a partition as the partition sizes can be altered.

I've got Macrium Reflect on W10 purely for that machine and that creates a cloned image back to an external usb drive.....like you I have 2 usb flash drives for OMV and use win32image to copy the current working setup to disk then write the image back to second, then use the second. I'm looking at buying a third to experiment and use dd on Mint laptop, 1) to see if dd is any quicker at cloning/copying 2) to see if dd actually works in creating a like for like bootable flash drive.

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Geaves;

I've been thinking about changing my avatar .

What do you thinK?

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Nah!! I think you're doing yourself an injustice, by all means change it to Homer but leave out the Noob, I would look at it more as Under Graduate and that's too many letters

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A post was lost... The info below was posted but is missing....

I couldn't get on the forum at all at one point....

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Anyway, I thought I had it. I went into Drive Manager, in Win 8, and did "shrink" on the partition C drive resides on. The minimum it would shrink the volume to was to 210GB. Obviously, to fit on 120GB, that's not enough. 210GB +/- might be a M$ minimum for Win8. (And shrinking it farther with Gparted might break Win 8.)

Interesting, I just had a look at my W10 using disk management.....did the shrink volume....this is a WD Blue 320Gb....disk management says....
Total size before shrink in MB: 304743
Size of available shrink space in MB: 5450
Total size after shrink in MB: 299293

Then 'You cannot shrink a volume beyond the point where any unmovable files are located. See the "defrag" event in the Application log for detailed information about the operation when it has completed.

See "Shrink a basic volume" in Disk Management help for more information.

That's interesting considering the drive has a used space of just over 120Gb....so if I understand that correctly you have 'clean up' the drive even to the point of possibly uninstalling software so that I could actually shrink the volume to say replace it with a 250Gb SSD.

It appears that moving to a smaller drive is not so straightforward so it's the partition table that actually 'controls' the disk not the space used on it.....I've only ever done something like this by going larger, not the other way around.....but it's a helps give a better understanding.

Time for a cuppa methinks...

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You got a whole 5GB out of the shrink. At 299GB, you're in the same rough ball park as I am at 210GB. I shouldn't have files spread around on that drive (I use this box almost exclusively for streaming) but I'll do a defrag and try again.

It seems to get this to shrink further, you need to disable the page file, disable hibernation and system restore as these are the 'bits' located at the end of the drive/partition, then you'll have to defrag, possibly uninstall software, backup then delete your data, defrag.....to me this sounds like the best option would be to what I used too do, create 2 partitions, 1 to install the o/s and the second to install software and store files.

My wife's 2 machines have just installed the latest W10 creator update (she has a laptop and a netbook) the laptop keeps coming up with a warning 'You must sign in to your Microsoft Account'.....why? no reason just the message.