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

[Stephan Althaus]

Hello Judah!

Thanks for your comment.

Yes i have smartmontools installed,
smartctl does see that SMART is enabled on the drives,
but i don't get SMART data..

# smartctl -a /dev/rdsk/c9t2d0s0 -T verypermissive
Password:
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [i386-pc-solaris2.11] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Samsung SpinPoint M9T
Device Model:     ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD
Serial Number:    S321J9FFA02953
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0004cf 20e38a8f6
Firmware Version: 2BC10001
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:    5400 rpm
Form Factor:      2.5 inches
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:    Tue Jan 12 08:04:22 2021 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

Read SMART Data failed: scsi error aborted command

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status command failed: scsi error aborted command
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: UNKNOWN!
SMART Status, Attributes and Thresholds cannot be read.

Read SMART Log Directory failed: scsi error aborted command

Read SMART Error Log failed: scsi error aborted command

Read SMART Self-test Log failed: scsi error aborted command

Selective Self-tests/Logging not supported



$ pkg info smartmontools
              Name: storage/smartmontools
           Summary: smartmontools contains utilities that control and 
monitor
                    storage devices
          Category: Applications/System Utilities
             State: Installed
         Publisher: openindiana.org
           Version: 7.1
            Branch: 2020.0.1.0
    Packaging Date: 12 June 2020 at 16:16:57
Last Install Time: 13 October 2019 at 14:15:49
  Last Update Time:  3 November 2020 at 11:30:45
              Size: 2.15 MB
              FMRI: 
pkg://openindiana.org/storage/smartmontools@7.1-2020.0.1.0:20200612T161657Z
       Project URL: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/smartmontools
        Source URL: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/smartmontools/7.1/smartmontools-7.1.tar.gz


On 01/12/21 07:52, Judah Richardson wrote:
> 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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