The perfect schedule...

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bokr71
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The perfect schedule...

Post by bokr71 »

Hi,

With all the regular trimming, speed tests, and scrubbing jobs that need to run on a NAS to keep it happy and healthy, what does the perfect schedule look like?

I was trying to fit in regular backups to the cloud and realised my NAS was busy every night with a bunch of jobs. I don't know how many of these should run every night, versus weekly or even monthly, but I moved most into weekly jobs. This is what I came up with...

Monthly
Day 3 - 05:05/RAID Scrubbing on my RAID6

Weekly
Monday - 05:05/SSD Trim, 06:00/SMART Rapid Test on all disks, 06:30/Performance Tests
Friday - 06:00/Security Counselor

Daily
00:05/Snapshots
01:00 - 04:00/Backup jobs kicking off every 30 min.
Apple: MS M1 Max 10c/32c/16c/64GB/2TB - MP 3.2GHz 16c/192GB/2TB/2xRadeon Pro - nMP 3.5GHz 6C/64GB/1TB/D700 - Echo Express 1TB Accelsior/4x500GB NVMe Sonnet/Sonnet Solo10G PCIe - MBP 13" 4c i7/16GB/512GB - MBP 14" M1 Pro/16GB/512GB - MB 12" 4c i7/16GB/512GB - MMI 6c i5/8GB/500GB - 2 x TC 3TB - HomePods - iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches...

Primary NAS: QNAP TVS-872XT 7x10TB + 2x512GB NVMe SSD. BackUp: Cloud iDrive - Locally QNAP TR-004 4x12TB

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Re: The perfect schedule...

Post by dosborne »

Whatever works best for you, but I don't see the NAS being "busy" during the night as a "problem" personally.

Backups should take priority IMO over everything.

I don't see the point in running performance tests at all, are you really going to bother looking at it?

Security councilor is basically useless, but should have no noticable impact on your system in any case.

I run daily (some run every hour, some every 24) backups as well as other weekly and on demand. I run a quick test on the drives once a week and a scrub once a month. That works for me, but everyone has different needs and concerns.
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bokr71
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Re: The perfect schedule...

Post by bokr71 »

I hear what you are saying, and will turn off the performance tests. However, the Security Counselor from time to time guides me to something I forgot, like running an antivirus scan.

As for backups, I run them nightly...

Is there anything I am missing?
Apple: MS M1 Max 10c/32c/16c/64GB/2TB - MP 3.2GHz 16c/192GB/2TB/2xRadeon Pro - nMP 3.5GHz 6C/64GB/1TB/D700 - Echo Express 1TB Accelsior/4x500GB NVMe Sonnet/Sonnet Solo10G PCIe - MBP 13" 4c i7/16GB/512GB - MBP 14" M1 Pro/16GB/512GB - MB 12" 4c i7/16GB/512GB - MMI 6c i5/8GB/500GB - 2 x TC 3TB - HomePods - iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches...

Primary NAS: QNAP TVS-872XT 7x10TB + 2x512GB NVMe SSD. BackUp: Cloud iDrive - Locally QNAP TR-004 4x12TB

Network: ISP Gtateway - TP-Link Deco - QNAP QSW-M408-4C
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