Angel

I'm compressing 266 files, 35GB total and 7-zip it's been compressing a PDF file for over 10 hours, the process currently it's been alive for more than 16 hours, granted the PDF file is the 168th file and compression is at 12% so I'm guessing it's been compressing the PDF file for over 14 hours not the whole 16+. This same thing has happened before with other files, the most recent one must have been a month or two ago where it got stuck compressing a PAK file from a game (don't remember which one)...

sorry for reopening but if I'm reading this correctly, right now as of version 12.4, to rename a disk all we have to do is change the name in the conf file and then run sync?

I've been breaking my head as to why the xattr of my files, specifically the creation timestamp that Windows adds when using samba shares from Linux to Windows, has been getting removed. First I though the filesystem was corrupt but xfs_repair show nothing wrong, then I thought maybe is my mounting options but nope, I'm using the defaults with noatime added. Even so all my other drives use the same filesystem and options and they work well. Fortunately I have backups of my files' timestamps so I...

I've been breaking my head as to why the xattr of my files, specifically the creation timestamp that Windows adds when using samba shares from Linux to Windows, has been getting removed. First I though the filesystem was corrupt but xfs_repair show nothing wrong, then I thought maybe is my mounting options but nope, I'm using the defaults with noatime added. Even so all my other drives use the same filesystem and options and they work well. Fortunately I have backups of my files' timestamps so I...

Thank you! Thinking it better, I better use a local drive for downloads, them move the completed ones weekly or so to a drive in the array before the scheduled sync. One thing, I see I can use exclusion filters, let's say of the 5 drives one of them has only one "data" folder and one "downloads" folder that occupies 80% of the drive's capacity but I exclude it, what does this means? I mean, does SnapRAID assumes zeros for the data that the "downloads" folder is currently occupying or just ignores...

Thank you for the detailed response. What approach would you take about this? Specifically, does SnapRAID sends a notification when a disk fails? I'm thinking on powering off the server when a disk fails, that way I'm 100% sure no file is modified and that I'll be safe in that I'll be able to restore the failed drive. It's more important to me to be able to restore the data than to not interrupt my hosted services. With this I take that the drive where I store my downloads (that is new files) is...

I have some questions about SnapRAID. I understand that it doesn't do real-time and instead we have to fire the sync command periodically, my questions are: Let's say I have 10 disks, 1 parity (11 total) and one of the data disks fails, I should stop any operations on any of the other 9 data disks, but how? I have to do this manually? This is a server which is live 24/7/365 so if the disk fails when i.e. I'm sleeping, does SnapRAID performs the "disconnection"? Like unmounting all the remaining disk...

As far as I can tell you use "archive" to refer to the compressed files, right? If that's the case using "fichero" and "archivo" makes no sense, at least here in Latin America I have never either read, hear or seen someone refer to a compressed file with "archivo", we call them "comprimidos" or "archivos comprimidos", or you could use "contenedor" instead