[OpenIndiana-discuss] Comments on a Backup Server wrt SMART

[Judah Richardson]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:46 AM Stephan Althaus <
Stephan.Althaus at duedinghausen.eu> wrote:

> Hello all!
>
> I am planning to set up a small server to send my snapshots to,
> to get rid of plumbing HDDs via USB all the time and automate these
> things..
>
> There will be 4-6 SATA HDDs (CMR) (the ones that i currently use via USB)
> on a SAS Controller (cheapy LSI SAS2008 or the like) to build a ZFS Raid
> Z2 or a stripe of mirrors.
>
> But i am wondering, as I won't have S.M.A.R.T data with OI on these
> disks (smartmon not imlemented for 'Solaris') ...
>
? smartmontools is in the OI repos:
https://repology.org/project/smartmontools/versions <- search that page for
"OpenIndiana"

>
> Ooes everybody here around use SAS (or SCSI) disks ??
>
I would if I could afford the associated infrastructure. I use - and get by
quite well with - SATA HDDs.

>
> Do you think SMART is relevant for my use case ??
>
Yes.

>
> Do you think i should use *BSD because of SMART ??
>
You should use whatever OS works best for you.

>
> Comments are very welcome :-)
>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stephan
>
>
>
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