Hello everybody,

 

I'm using unraid with a few hard disks as datastorage and I'm looking into cache drives to speed some things up. I've read that there is a mover in unraid that runs every night to  move data from the cache drive to the parity. But I don't want to run my server 24/24, so now I'm wondering if I use the sleep script and my server is in S3 sleep during the night. Will the mover never run?

 

Thanks in advance

Hello everybody,

 

I'm using unraid with a few hard disks as datastorage and I'm looking into cache drives to speed some things up. I've read that there is a mover in unraid that runs every night to  move data from the cache drive to the parity. But I don't want to run my server 24/24, so now I'm wondering if I use the sleep script and my server is in S3 sleep during the night. Will the mover never run?

You can change the time that mover is scheduled to run under Settings->Scheduler->Mover Settings.  It might be prudent to change that to a time when you expect your server to be on.

But there are no fixed hours the server is on, is there something else I can try?

But there are no fixed hours the server is on, is there something else I can try?

It is not at all critical that mover is run every day- it is just until it runs then the data is not on the protected array..  I would just pick a likely time as there must be times that are more likely than others.  You can also run mover explicitly at any time. 

 

You could also add an option to a script run either before or after S3 sleep is invoked to explicitly run mover.

Just before it goes to sleep would be awesome, because that would mean I don't need the server anymore, so he can start writing to the array.

What are the custom command I should run before sleep to start the mover just before the server goes to sleep?

 

What happens when the cache is full, will it start the mover automatically?