ikon 439 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 If I ever get into PowerShell, I will definitely be picking your brain Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Like I said, interesting. But hey, it works; that's the important thing. Sounds like you're pretty much done. BTW. when reviewing the logs, I use Notepad. After I open a log file, I first search for "retry". Ideally, it's not found at all. Then, I search for "ended :". This takes me to the summary section for each backup command, so I can easily see if any file copies failed. Thanks again. Now that I've stepped thru the scripts and confirmed they work, I'm going to step back and review after my 3:00 AM task completes. It should update files on 2 external HDDs (4 TB each). 1-Nearline and 2-Offsite. If all goes well, I'm considering picking up 2 of those Thermaltake enclosures and repurposing these HGST 4 TB HDDs! Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 There ya go! All sounds good to me and, hopefully, it will give you peace of mind. Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 As luck would have it frozencpu.com has sold out too! Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted May 25, 2014 Author Share Posted May 25, 2014 Should'a jumped when they had 'em. Not to worry, they seem to get them in regularly. Did you telephone them? I did that once and they had one on the shelf that wasn't registered on the website, so I got it. Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 (edited) Great tip. This actually helped me identify that my Offsite backup drive is failing. Started consistently reporting retry limit errors in the logfile. Decision made - once EX-503 enclosures back in stock, getting at least 1... Edited May 26, 2014 by Jason Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 Don't know if you've seen it, but pcdoc did a review of the EX-503 back in 2011: http://homeservershow.com/lian-li-ex-503b.html Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted May 26, 2014 Share Posted May 26, 2014 Believe it or not, I was just reading that. Do you run yours in RAID5 mode or JBOD? Just curious. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted May 26, 2014 Author Share Posted May 26, 2014 Actually, neither. I'm running mine in the 'Clear RAID & Port Multiplier' mode. It's what I call true JBOD, meaning that the drives are presented to the system as individuals, not as a single volume. The drives are then pooled together using DrivePool. The idea is that, by using DrivePool, I will be able to read each individual drive in the case of catastrophic failure (fire or whatever) by retrieving my OffSite units. Recently, Stablebit added the ability to Eject USB drive pools, so I can be reasonably confident that I won't get data corruption by yanking a drive too early (as I might with eSATA). Link to post Share on other sites
Jason 84 Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 ikon, start of my offsite .cmd looks like this: @echo onset tyme1=%time:~0,2%-%time:~3,2%-%time:~6,2%If exist T:\NUL.EXT ( set drive$=T goto Offsite-A)Echo Could not find drive T for offsite backup > "F:\ServerFolders\Backup\logs\Offsite\BackupToOffsite_RoboCopy.log" If it does not find drive-T (my offsite backup HDD drive letter), why is it not creating/writing an offsite .log file? Link to post Share on other sites
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