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What would the syntax be if I wanted to backup a specific directory called Home Movies in a share called Movies be? i.e. /Movies/Home Movies

Thanks @trurl and thanks @dlandon for the great plugin. Any other rsync switches that would be useful to know or anything else people add to their scripts? Only plan on using this to back up my shares and store HDDs offsite.

Can someone show me what/where I need to add in the backup script in the op for backing up additional shares?

I want to start using this plugin to back up my shares to an external HDD. Where could I go to get help with a script for doing this? I know there is an example in the 1st post, but I'm not sure what it does/doesn't do. I'm trying to learn rsync, but I'm not confident plus the rest of the scripting is Greek to me. Thanks,

Awesome, thanks!

I am running rc8 and that appears to me normal operation. At least that is how mine works. Thanks for the confirmation, but I hope there is a way to automatically start the array on power up. I need a set it and forget approach for this technically limited individual.

I recently built a unRaid server for a friend and used RC5-8a. One thing I noticed that whenever the server powers up, the array doesn't start automatically, I have to manual start it. Is this normal and can I have it automatically start at power up? It didn't seem like 4.7 did this. Thanks and sorry if this is a stupid question.

If my new 2TB EARS drive consistenly preclears at over 40 hours is that enough of a reason to rma it? Preclear results enclosed. Thanks. preclear_finish_sdg_2011-03-12.txt

I put a new motherboard in and everything came up fine. I also put in a SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 and when I tried to use it to preclear 2 drives, I get this: Pre-Clear unRAID Disk /dev/sdc ################################################################## 1.7 Error: preclear_disk unable to continue. smartctl is unable to run on /dev/sdc with the -d ata option. smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0 Serial Number: WD-WMAZA3280454 Firmware Version: 51.0AB51 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sat Mar 12 17:56:52 2011 EST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled Error SMART Status command failed Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Register values returned from SMART Status command are: ST =0x40 ERR=0x00 NS =0x0c SC =0xc0 CL =0x87 CH =0xe0 SEL=0x40 A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.$ I get this when I list drives available for preclearing: ====================================1.7 Disks not assigned to the unRAID array (potential candidates for clearing) ======================================== /dev/sdb = ata-WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WMAZA0492654 /dev/sdc = scsi-SATA_WDC_WD20EARS-00_WD-WMAZA3280454 It seems like no matter what drive or what port I use, sdc produces this error. I can only assume it has to do with the "scsi", but why or how? Syslog attached for reference. syslog-2011-03-12.zip

Thanks!

Were you responding to me or subwars?

If these are the results that I get after (2) preclears on a new 2 TB EARS drive, should I RMA it? ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdb /tmp/smart_finish_sdb ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE Raw_Read_Error_Rate = 143 100 51 ok 5916 Temperature_Celsius = 132 133 0 ok 18 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdg /tmp/smart_finish_sdg ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE Raw_Read_Error_Rate = 166 143 51 ok 7198 Seek_Error_Rate = 100 200 0 ok 0 Temperature_Celsius = 132 131 0 ok 18 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. Thanks.