[smartmontools-support] using smartd -s with a "any-hour-regex"

[Simon B. <sim...@bl...>]

Hi,

I'm setting up smartmontools to monitor my laptop's HD. Thanks to the 
very good manpages, the basic setup was pretty easy, but now I've got a 
question about scheduling self-tests with the '-s' option. My computer 
does not run 24/24 hours a day and there isn't really a time in day 
where it's pretty sure it is on. However, there are days in the week 
where I (almost) always will use it. So my first thought was to use 
something like this:
-s S/../../7/..
to run a short self-test every Sunday, no matter at what time.
The problem is, if I understand things correctly, that with such a 
regex, a short self-test will be run after every device poll that day. 
Running a self-test every 30 minutes doesn't seem to make much sense, so 
  is there a way to avoid this?
Or should I just schedule self-tests at a time where it is most probable 
that the computer is on and live with the fact that sometimes longer 
periods of time will pass between two self-tests? After all I don't 
really have any "vital" data on the disc, so the paranoia-level must not 
be that high...

Thanks in advance

Simon

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