Got the server built over the weekend and it's running smoothly. 

 

Now here's my question.  I will be using the server mostly as a read NAS - for music, video and photos.  Obviously I will not be wanting to listen to music/watch videos whilst I'm away at work, so on weekends and evenings I want to just power it up for a few hours.  Obviously there are real financial and environmental savings in not running it all the time, but are there any downsides that I should be aware of not running the server 24x7? 

 

Also, since my MB supports it, does unRaid allow wake-on-LAN??  That would save me a trip down to the basement everytime to switch it on.  I use Putty to telnet in and turn it off or are there better ways to do this?

 

Many thanks for your reponses.  Matt.

Also, since my MB supports it, does unRaid allow wake-on-LAN??  That would save me a trip down to the basement everytime to switch it on. 

 

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Also, since my MB supports it, does unRaid allow wake-on-LAN??  That would save me a trip down to the basement everytime to switch it on. 

 

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It supports wake-on-lan as long as your network card/chipset does.  You do need to enable wake-on-lan in your motherboard BIOS.

 

See here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2116.msg15705#msg15705

 

To shut down cleanly from telnet, you need a copy of the "powerdown" command. or, you can stop the array and then power down from the web interface. 

 

You can find the powerdown command script here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Powerdown_script

 

Jpe L.

Got the wake on lan working, using a WOL packet generator called it's sweet http://sysutil.googlepages.com/wakeup - just need to chuck it in to a batch file with the server MAC - sorted.

 

Now, for the shutdown, I've been telnetting in and running shutdown from the shell.  Should I be stopping the array first??  Thanks for the link to the powerdown script, I'll give it a go at including it tonight.

 

Matt.

Got the wake on lan working, using a WOL packet generator called it's sweet http://sysutil.googlepages.com/wakeup - just need to chuck it in to a batch file with the server MAC - sorted.

 

Now, for the shutdown, I've been telnetting in and running shutdown from the shell.  Should I be stopping the array first??  Thanks for the link to the powerdown script, I'll give it a go at including it tonight.

 

Matt.

If you do not first stop the array you will force the server to re-calculate parity when it powers up again.  You should first stop the array, then power down.

 

The script I gave the link to does all the steps needed. (and there are quite a few to make it a clean shutdown)

 

You can from the browser press the "Stop" button, and then once the array is stopped, a "Power Down" button will appear on the management interface main page.  That button will also cleanly power down the array if you do not want to deal with telnet.

 

Joe L.

That explains why I was getting such poor read speeds last night.  I was trying to stream a movie and it was skipping quite a lot.  So I gave up and went to the web console only to see that a parity check was taking place...   I thought that parity checks only take place after an error and was somewhat worried.  Good to know that it was because I'd been running the plain old vanilla 'shutdown' command.  From now on will use the web console to stop the array first - that is until I find some time to fiddle with the go script!

 

Thanks once again Joe!

Matt.

Could you possibly put in move cache in powerdown script or give me the line...

Obviously there are real financial and environmental savings in not running it all the time, but are there any downsides that I should be aware of not running the server 24x7? 

 

 

Well I've had my Unraid up and running daily since Feb with no problems. Basically I always power down during the night and switch it on when I either get home from work or wake up at weekends. Also if I'm out the house for any length of time I turn it off too, always by the web interface. That's a few hundred off and ons since Feb and not one problem yet. If there are downsides I would like to know but I would have found one by now but I'll never leave it on 24/7.