[Looking for better ideas how how to sleep/suspend my unraid box]

That's brilliant. I'll add that when I've added a cache drive

[Looking for better ideas how how to sleep/suspend my unraid box]

With the release of v4.5, I'm considering adding a cache drive into my system - but would the nighttime copy still work if the system were asleep (more than likely at 3am)? I'm guessing it wouldn't...

 

Is there a way to wake a system automatically at (say) 2:55AM every morning in time for the cache copy to work? Or would I have to get another server to wake up the unRAID server every morning.

 

Just wondering.

[Looking for better ideas how how to sleep/suspend my unraid box]

I still have the same issue - please post back if you have any break throughs!  System negotiates a gigabit connection on boot, but then every subsequent wake from S3 comes back at 100Mbps.  I can telnet in and set back to 1000Mbps using ethtool - but I've not tried to automate it using the sleep script - not sure that's going to be successful.

 

agw

Well, I can say that it works 100% of the time, but I did upgrade to 4.5b7 at the same time, so now I'm not sure which method was successful...

I'll do some more playing, but in the meantime, here's the modified s3.sh script I'm using - one simple addition to the wake-up section:

#!/bin/bash
drives="/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/hda /dev/hdb"
timeout=5
count=5
while [ 1 ]
do
hdparm -C $drives | grep -q active
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
  count=$[$count-1]
else
  count=$timeout
fi
if [ $count -le 0 ]
then
  # Do pre-sleep activities
  sleep 5
  # Go to sleep
  echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep
  # Do post-sleep activities
  # Force NIC to use gigabit networking
  ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000
  # Force a DHCP renewal (shouldn't be used for static-ip boxes)
  /sbin/dhcpcd -n
  sleep 5
  count=$timeout
fi
# Wait a minute
# echo COUNT $count
sleep 60
done

[Looking for better ideas how how to sleep/suspend my unraid box]

I've got this working fine on my unRAID box (props to OMV & agw ), but I too am suffering from my NIC coming back from sleep running only at 100Mbps speeds, not gigabit speeds.

 

I'm wondering whether it's possible to force the NIC to gigabit using

ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000

 

I can't access my unRAID box at the moment, but I might give a go over the weekend.

If it works (and it really is as simple as that), then should it just be a case of inserting the line into the post-sleep section of OMV's script?

 

I'll let you know how I get on...