I was just looking at some SMART stats on my drives - I've got one that reports almost 43000 power on hours.

 

I've got several with over 50,000 hrs (I shouldn't post this -- I'm sure they'll all fail tonight !!) 

I was just looking at some SMART stats on my drives - I've got one that reports almost 43000 power on hours.

 

I've got several with over 50,000 hrs (I shouldn't post this -- I'm sure they'll all fail tonight !!) 

 

But aren't they supposed to be 2-300,000 hours MTBF? As they say about a Honda, it's just getting broken in!

 

 

/topic drift

Gary, could you please tell me what software you use to back up your servers to your BUS?

 

Thanks!

 

 

My main media server hasn't been shut down in ~ 6 years except for a few power failures that exceeded 5 minutes, which is the threshold I have the APC UPS package set to do an auto-shutdown.

 

My second server hasn't been shut down since I built it a little over a year ago.

 

My backup server is shutdown all the time except for once/month when it's turned on (via WOL) to automatically sync the data from my other two servers.

I use rsync. See here http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=13432.0

Gary, could you please tell me what software you use to back up your servers to your BUS?

 

I use SyncBack SE running on a Windows box.    I've got a scheduled task that runs a small script that (a) send a WOL command to the backup server;  (b) sends WOL commands to the two UnRAID servers (which should already be on ... this is just-in-case);  © waits 3 minutes (longer than needed); and then (d) runs SyncBack with a "Backup UnRAID Servers" profile that automatically backs up the servers.    I've got the task set to run once/month ... but could clearly do it at whatever interval I wanted.  I think once/month is plenty, as the backup server is actually a 2nd complete backup of everything -- I also backup all data to a dedicated backup disk which I switch out and store securely whenever it fills up.

 

I keep my server offline if I don't watch a movie or do some upgrading or maintaining.

 

I'm not at home a lot and the fan noise is too much in my studio apartment during night time. The parity checks and rebuilds are always a bit pain.

 

 

Thanks, Gary, and dgaschk.

 

I will check those out.

 

Gary, could you please tell me what software you use to back up your servers to your BUS?

 

I use SyncBack SE running on a Windows box.    I've got a scheduled task that runs a small script that (a) send a WOL command to the backup server;  (b) sends WOL commands to the two UnRAID servers (which should already be on ... this is just-in-case);  © waits 3 minutes (longer than needed); and then (d) runs SyncBack with a "Backup UnRAID Servers" profile that automatically backs up the servers.    I've got the task set to run once/month ... but could clearly do it at whatever interval I wanted.  I think once/month is plenty, as the backup server is actually a 2nd complete backup of everything -- I also backup all data to a dedicated backup disk which I switch out and store securely whenever it fills up.

It's probably obvious, but the batch file I run looks like this:

 

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Utilities\wol-0.5.1-win32\bin\wol.exe" 00:30:48:B0:A7:19

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Utilities\wol-0.5.1-win32\bin\wol.exe" 00:25:90:96:69:C6

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Utilities\wol-0.5.1-win32\bin\wol.exe" 00:35:54:91:32:47

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Utilities\wait 300"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\2BrightSparks\SyncBack\SyncBack.exe" "Backup UnRAID"

 

 

-- Turns on all 3 UnRAID boxes (2 of which are likely already on)

-- Waits 300 seconds (5 minutes ... I thought it was set for 3 minutes, but it's actually 5)

-- Runs my SyncBack profile that does the backups

 

Obviously you have to have the WOL utility and a Wait utility on your system.  There are several of those available for free.