snapraid-runner VS snapraid-helper

Yeah this is what I do now. I also use SnapRAID-Runner to provide some extra automation and email notifications. Its a bit less 'safe' than drivepool 2x duplication and doesn't provide the read-striping performance improvements but it does give a single mountpoint for all the drives, makes better use of total disk space and lets you use mis-matched drive sizes.

You just need to use a scheduler and execute Snapraid Runner Script.

a. git clone https://github.com/Chronial/snapraid-runner.git /opt/snapraid-runner

I use mergers and snapraid and monitor my disks using smartmontools. I have the following line in my smartd.conf: DEVICESCAN -o on -H -l error -l selftest -t -s (L/../01/./08) -m [email protected] My postfix main.cf: relayhost = 192.168.0.27:8025 I then run https://github.com/YoRyan/mailrise in a docker on both my NUC VM Hosts which converts smtp emails to pushover messages. Every night at 1AM 0 1 * * * python3 /root/scripts/snapraid-runner.py -c /root/scripts/snapraid-runner.conf > /dev/null 2>&1 I run a snapraid sync and scrub using script from https://github.com/Chronial/snapraid-runner and scrub 20 percent of the array every night. I have it set to only email on error but you can have it email on success as well. I also use the SMART Application in LibreNMS (https://docs.librenms.org/Extensions/Applications/#smart) to graph the temperatures as well handle the temperature alerting.

Just looking to move to SnapRAID from Greyhole, and I notice a lot of chatter regarding https://github.com/Chronial/snapraid-runner.

I am just getting snapraid up and running. I've seen a few different scripts to automate it. Two that have caught my eye are snapraid-runner, which seems commonly suggested. I also saw this script by Zack Reed, and it seems promising as it automates some other items (like pausing docker containers).

I am currently using https://github.com/Chronial/snapraid-runner as my runner every 4am and currently I am experiencing syncing my CCTV folder which always change because of the recording, and as well as my download folder.

Alternatively to running snapraid.exe directly, you might wanna consider snapraid-helper - a tried and tested wrapper, written in Powershell, that does additional things: disk error checks, a pre-diff check, and can email notifications.

Known about this issue for some time and managed to resolve it with my own setup, but neglected to update my repo at https://github.com/droolio/snapraid-helper (not the original author, but AFAIK this is the only place which has the fullest commit history, from when it was hosted on Codeplex).

This is an incredibly useful script borrowed from droolio/snapraid-helper: PowerShell helper script for SnapRAID (github.com) which references a configured .ini and allows you to use task scheduler to handle snapraid tasks.

Snapraid takes some configuration in files (see the manual), it doesn't really have a GUI, and doesn't keep a parity at all times. You have to (manually or by creating a task) start a sync and/or scrub to update your parity file at a particular time, so it is more suitable for data that doesn't change often, like a media library, you most likely only modify/add/delete a few files per day. But the metadata for your library is best left out of the pool, that can change more often. For creating the sync/scrub tasks on Windows, there's also a Powershell script that I'm using: https://github.com/droolio/snapraid-helper.

If you're after a good Windows script, snapraid-helper has proven quite reliable for me.

This is what you want. Just customize it for your data and parity drives and then you can setup up a task to run it every night with task scheduler.