On Friday 12 November 2010 04:45:17 Voytek Eymont wrote:
this is a rolling storage for cameras, so we lost data that would
soon be overwritten, anyhow
but, what can I use to be notified should such a failure occur
again ?
Can't think of anything other than occasional checks with the disks
Richard == Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com writes:
- what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the unit
down ?
- what sort of utility can I run to 'detect and notify' should
such failure occurs again ?
Can you use SMART?
Also, the main problem I've
Can you use SMART?
Thinking was a bit fuzzy this morning. I was thinking that you might
be able to write a bash script using smartmon. Any bash script would
have to have something like this in it...
smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sdb
or whatever would be relevant. Also some part of the script
Thanks to Kev and Dazza for the input - appreciated.
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On 11/11/2010 10:15 AM, Nigel Allen wrote:
Hi All
I am getting near to virtualising some 5 servers at a customers onto one
box which will then replicate onto a hot backup server elsewhere on the
premises (the far office).
Bit of
Hi Voytek,
I'm not really sure what the best indicators are of a failing hard drive.
I've used smart on a lot of hard drives; I've seen undocumented smart
values and even hard drives function fine for a number of years when smart
reports they are FAILING NOW'. I've also seen some drives
