andyjayh Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 I am looking to replace a pc that I have running that has my torrent app and squeezserver with my unRaid server. This will be a great solution for me as I only have to leave the unRaid server running and can remove another pc from my home. So as both these apps will be running 24x7 and have log files etc I am assuming that it would be better to install these on a cache drive and not the array so as to stop the array spinning up, disks within the array anyway. Is this correct? Am I thinking along the right lines here? Transmission seems fairly straight forward to get up and running but I think the Squeezeserver is a bit of a pain unless someone can tell me otherwise? Link to comment
PeterB Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 That is quite correct - SqueezeBoxServer is best run from a drive which is outside of the parity-protected array. I remember it being a little convoluted to get it running from the cache drive, but it can be done. In order to limit spinups on the cache drive, I moved all of the SBS logfiles to /var/log on the memory disk - achieving this did take me a little while. Mine has been running like this for several months. I have the following notes (relating to updating an existing installation - but they may give some clues for a new install) stored on disk: I would kill the currently running SBS process first! 1. Unrar the new package and move to new install directory: • tar -xf squeezeboxserver-7.x.x.tgz 2. Permissions of directories and files needs to be 755: • chmod -R 755 ./SBS_new_install/ 3. Copy across the Prefs, Plugins, Cache and Logs directories from the old installation: • cp -pR ./SBS_old_install/prefs ./SBS_new_install/ • cp -pR ./SBS_old_install/Plugins ./SBS_new_install/ • cp -pR ./SBS_old_install/cache ./SBS_new_install/ • cp -pR ./SBS_old_install/Logs ./SBS_new_install/ 4. Ownership of root program directory needs to be changed (I use slimserver:1000 for some reason!): • chown -R slimserver:root ./SBS_new_install (I never had to do this in the past...but it probably won't hurt.) 5. ln -s SBS_new_install slimserver If you need assistance, don't be afraid to ask. Link to comment
andyjayh Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 Thanks Peter, great to know I am on the right track. I'll try and work my way through the notes and threads on here to work out the Squeezeserver install... I have ordered a new 1Tb drive and Supermicro 8 way SATA card. I have already used up the mb 6 channels on-board so the installation of a cache drive was the tipping point of more hardware on order. Link to comment
joshpond Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Transmission worked well for me but no so much the SBS. This was a about a year ago though so things may have changed. I didn't have SBS on a cache drive though so it did keep spinning up one of my drives. The issue I had was that it would occasionally shut itself (SBS) off. Poor WAF. Give it a go though but I found it difficult. It was easier for me to move it to my mythtv server. Josh Link to comment
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