What wakes up my TS-212 periodically?

[schumaku]

But is this normal behaviour that the HDD spins up at certain periods when stand-by has enabled?

Definitivley yes. Because many operations require the disks spinning, other operations do loggong and spin-up the drives therefore, ... and so on. A NAS not a car where the engine does not have to run while the car is not moving.

Again, when you don't waht the disks spsin-up during the night - shutdown the NAS. More sophisticated QNAP NAS models allow to configure power-up and power-down schedules. But enesure all management and maintenance tasks are scheduled outside of the downtime window.

[Briain]

Hi Kurt and Hi Pat

I realise that the 'housekeeping' entries in crontab are there for good reasons (otherwise Qnap wouldn't have bothered creating them) but I've pushed mine out to weekly and I have not yet noticed any problems (there's no smoke nor flames pouring out of the Qnap fan vents; yet)!

I now run the below (to do all my housekeeping once per week):

# m h dom m dow cmd
1 3 * * 3 /etc/init.d/idmap.sh dump
2 3 * * 3 /sbin/hwclock -s
3 3 * * 3 /sbin/vs_refresh
5 3 * * 3 /sbin/clean_reset_pwd
4 3 * * 3 /etc/init.d/backup_conf.sh

As I say, I've not noticed any detrimental effects, but it does stop the NAS spinning up every night. I'd be very interested to know if anyone has any thoughts on whether I should revise my above strategy (i.e. do any of these really need a daily schedule as opposed a weekly one).

Bri

Pat asked me about the Twonky cache and I keep meaning to post more about how I manage that aspect of things, but it would take this series pf posts a bit far off-topic, so I'll create a post in the Linn forum and put a link to that post here once I've typed it all out (PS I've made a start).