On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Paul Waldo wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a RAID6 array and I wondering about care and feeding instructions :-) > > Here is what I currently do: > - daily incremental and weekly full backups to a separate machine > - run smartd tests (short once a day, long once a week) > - check the raid for bad blocks every week > > What else can I do make sure the array keeps humming? Thanks in advance! Stop fiddling with it :) I run similar stuff, but don't forget running mdadm in daemon mode to send you an email should a drive fail. I also check each device individually, rather than the array although I don't know the value of doing this over the SMART tests on modern drives though... Gordon - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
