topic Auto Consistency Checks in Netservers

Auto Consistency Checks

Edward Ulpindo_1 — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:55:57 GMT

I've recently updated to the latest version of NetRAID Assistant and now NetRAID automatically runs a consistency check every week. I can't find an option in NetRAID Assistant to turn this off or control the schedule. Am I missing something?

Any info is greatly appreciated!

Edward
eulpindo@hotmail.com

Re: Auto Consistency Checks

Edward Ulpindo_1 — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:08:54 GMT

Never mind -- found the posts with the related info...

Sorry about that...

Edward

Re: Auto Consistency Checks

Mark Young_2 — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 12:07:54 GMT

Hi Edward,

I understand the frustration in not being able to turn off or alter the schedule.

I would however, like to give you some advice. If you do turn of the consistecny checks altogether, you may want to go in there at least once a month and do one manually. If you don't perform them on a regular monthly basis, you can get corruption in your parity data that can result in a degraded array. Over time it can get so bad that you won't be able to rebuild a failed drive.

I just thought I'd share some of my knowledge with you in case you were unaware of this.

Mark

Re: Auto Consistency Checks

Edward Ulpindo_1 — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 14:55:22 GMT

Thanks for the advice, Mark! I definitely will set up at least a monthly check...