Motherboard Beeping?

Hi WeeboTech, thanks for the tip, I've toyed w/an SSD for My Documents file, though hadn't considered placing it outside of the Array.  A couple of choices come to mind, I have a netbook w/only an 8GB SSD so replacing it w/anything larger might actually be a boon!   Last week when we were working on the Win7 machine, Newegg had a special (seems weekly), here's a current 32GB - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227510 for $ 70 w/rebate which would be more than enough for me.

The size only matters for the files you use the most and want to access very fast.

If you keep the SSD outside of the Array, does it then need to be formatted for Reiserserf's or would a standard Fat/Fat32/NTFS format do?  How would you do the outside/inside "backup".  I've done lots of networking but not much Linux so am not clear on the steps or the process.  I really appreciate your responses, you are such a help to those of us who don't really program in Linux or do many of the things that can be done w/UnRaid!  Kudos and Cheers! :)

 

Warmly,

 

Dave

The SSD outside the array can be formatted reiserfs or ext2. Either works, but since the rest of unRAID uses reiserfs, I might just keep it the same. If you want a worst case, I have to mount this on my windows machine then ext2 or NTFS.  I'm not comfortable with NTFS for this use though. it took so long to get it into linux because it had to be reverse engineered.  This is my own opinion on it. There are third party drivers for ext2 on windows.

If you get a large enough SSD for unRAID, it can be the cache drive and your Documents folder.

it all depends on how much data you move to unRAID at one time.

As far as backup, There are a number of us that can help with example scripts and tools with rsync.

I have one that even backs up the changes to dated folders using the rsync --link-dest parameter.

It's neat because only the changes are brought over each day. Files which have not changed are linked to the other dated directories and still occupy the same "shared/linked" space.

We can all help you with this, Thanks for the acknowledgment, You're in good hands here with the many seasoned veterans of Unix/Linux and unRAID.

I love Joe L's stories of yesteryear! LOL!

>> so am not clear on the steps or the process.

Choose a shared backup destination on the array, This should be a disk share.

we create a command in /etc/cron.daily that holds the rsync command.

It runs daily.

Done.

When you feel you are ready to start looking at a slightly advanced or busier backup script I'll post it on google code.

In the mean time you can do a google search for man rsync.

it's as simple as

rsync -a sourcedirectory destinationdirectory