Wondering if there's a script that someone has created where I can spin up a specific user share at certain days/times.

 

The reason being, I'd like to use unRAID as backup location for my VM's in ESXi (using the gheyttoVCB script). ESXi supports NFS shares, but NFS shares don't wake up unRAID disks. I have my ESXi Backups happen at a set time on certain days of the week via cron, and I figure I can spin up the unRAID disks for that NFS share a few minutes before ESXi will attempt to write to it.

 

This way I can use unRAID for all my ESXi VM backups, while at the same time allowing all my disks to stay spun down as often as possible.

What do you mean nfs share dont span up disks?

When you accessing the share the disck should span up automatically. 

 

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It doesn't.

 

At least, it doesn't spin up the disks when applications on my Ubuntu server try to access a mounted NFS share, or when ESXi tries to copy data to an NFS share. If those shares are on unRAID and the disks for those shares are spun down, nothing gets copied.

interesting, I was kind of planning to add NFS shares to my setup, but now I might need to rethink that idea.

what setup do you have?

do you have a cache drive?

if you do that could be your issue too.

I didn't think about that. I do use a cache drive and the share in question was set to use the cache. I'll do some testing today without the cache drive to see if that gets things spinning up properly.

I didn't think about that. I do use a cache drive and the share in question was set to use the cache. I'll do some testing today without the cache drive to see if that gets things spinning up properly.

 

Thanks for throwing out that idea. I some testing and if I disable the cache disk NFS shares do spin up when accessed from a remote mount. SMB allows me to use the cache drive and still have disks spin up,  but it looks like unRAID requires NFS to go direct to disk and skip the cache drive to properly spin up the drives.