Volume Maintenance timing

What version of RAIDiator?

What time did you set on Tuesday for the Disk Scrubbing and what time for the Online Filesystem Consistency Check?

Hi,

I am using 4.2.21 T7, and the times were set for 02:00 every 4 weeks (Tuesdays) for the Disk Scrubbing, and for 02:00 every 4 weeks (Fridays) for the Online Filesystem Consistency Check.

/Bo

Update to the production release (Edit: oops, I was thinking of 4.2.20 which was released a month and a half ago).

Also try setting Online Filesystem Consistency Check to run 1hr before disk scrubbing. Also could try scheduling to start not right on the hour.

I had the same issue/question on 4.2.20!

I don't think the issue is that the maintenance doesn't trigger, just that it is right now running in a schedule, which is every 4 weeks, and this week was not one of them. The question I have then is; how do I reset the "every 4 weeks" to start tonight for example? I thought it would be enough to save without anything in the schedule, and then create the schedule from scratch?

/Bo

The information is in here:

MDGM-NAS:~# cat /etc/frontview/vol_maint.conf
scrub:/dev/c/c:4:1338656402
consistency:/dev/c/c:1:1339254002

If you don't have SSH access, go to System > Config Backup in Frontview, download the config, extract the zip contents and look at the file. You'll see a timestamp. You can use an epoch time converter on the web (e.g. http://www.epochconverter.com/) to work out when the job was last run.

As you can see I have disk scrubbing scheduled every four weeks and a consistency check scheduled every week. I run the consistency check two hours before the disk scrubbing. Running on the hour works fine for me, but I don't think you can do both checks at the same time.

Hi,

Doing that I get:

BMK-rnp:~# cat /etc/frontview/vol_maint.conf
scrub:/dev/c/c:4:
consistency:/dev/c/c:4:
BMK-rnp:~#

As the scrub runs on Tuesdays, and the consistency on Fridays, the timing shouldn't be a problem.

/Bo

That does seem to suggest it hasn't run yet.

Check the cron log

tail /var/log/cron.log

looking for entries indicating that /etc/cron.d/frontview-vol_maint was run

You are right, there is nothing in the cron.log. However, it has run a number of times, but not since I tried cancelling it, and recreating the jobs from scratch.

How do I select when it is run the first time?

/Bo

There should be an entry in the cron log for when it is run. The cronjob should be run each week regardless. The script will check /etc/frontview/vol_maint.conf and use the information there to decide whether to do the maintenance.

What does your /etc/cron.d/frontview-vol_maint look like?

Hi,

It looks like:

0 2 * * tue root /frontview/bin/vol_maint scrub /dev/c/c
0 2 * * fri root /frontview/bin/vol_maint consistency /dev/c/c

/Bo