Looking for a mechanism that creates a catalog of what is stored on what disk

[ashaneil]

Hi fellow unRIADers,

When I started using unRAID, I only had 4 drives. I am now upto 16 drives and growing. The other day, a horrible thought occurred to me - If one of the drives were to fail, I om OK. BUT, if 2 or more drives failed, I would lose all the data stored on those drives.

 

 

So my question is this: does anyone have a mechanism (an app, plugin, script, etc) that creates a catalog of what is stored on what disk on a scheduled basis? If not, I can always script it. I would prefer not having to reinvent the wheel.

 

 

Thanks

[hernandito]

I would love to have this script!   

[graywolf]

 

 

output the following to a file should do the trick

 

ls -l /mnt/ | grep disk | ls -lR /mnt/`awk -F " " '{print $8}'`

 

 

 

 

[ashaneil]

Wow. Thanks for the fast response and the great one-liner.

 

 

I just play with the syntax to get the output in the format I want (i.e. suppress all those silly back slashes...) and then onto cron.

 

 

Thanks again

[graywolf]

 

 

output the following to a file should do the trick

 

ls -l /mnt/ | grep disk | ls -lR /mnt/`awk -F " " '{print $8}'`

 

actually I was getting too fancy there. mind was wrapped up in the middle of another script for work I was working on.

 

simplier version. output to file following line:

 

ls -lR /mnt/disk* 

 

d'oh

[soana]

Thanks graywolf, your command line is now part of a script in my /etc/cron.monthly

[bnevets27]

There was work being done by one for the senior (not in an old sense   )  guys on the forum with a little more elaborate solution.  Not that it is really needed but it had some features.  Currently I have a similar script running on a cron job also

 

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[BobPhoenix]

Could also use md5deep to also get a checksum of the files and that could be used periodically to check for bit rot.  It produces one line for each file listing the checksum so you also get your file list.

[jbartlett]

Here's a tool I wrote to do inventory + optional Hash checks.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=28354.0