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@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ Synopsis
:snapraid [-V, --version] [-h, --help]
Description
SnapRAID is a backup program for a disk array using redundancy.
SnapRAID is a backup program for a disk array.
SnapRAID uses a disk of the array to store redundancy information,
and it allows to recover from up to two disk failures.
SnapRAID stores redundancy information in the disk array,
and it allows recovering from up to two disk failures.
SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, where you have
a lot of big files that rarely change.
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* You can add more disks at any time.
* If you accidentally delete some files in a disk, you can
recover them.
* If more than two disk fails, you lose the data only on the
* If more than two disks fail, you lose the data only on the
failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe.
* It doesn't lock-in your data. You can stop using SnapRAID at any
time without the need to reformat or move data.
* All your data is hashed to ensure data integrity.
* All your data is hashed to ensure data integrity and avoid
silent corruption.
The official site of SnapRAID is:
@ -42,7 +43,7 @@ Limitations
benefits of them. Although it also has some limitations that you should
consider before using it.
The main one, is that if a disk fail, and you haven't recently synced,
The main one is that if a disk fails, and you haven't recently synced,
you may not able to do a complete recover.
More specifically, you may be unable to recover up to the size of the
amount of the changed or deleted files, from the last sync operation.
@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ Configuration
This configuration file is located in /etc/snapraid.conf in Unix or
in the execution directory in Windows.
It should contains the following options:
It should contain the following options:
=parity FILE
Defines the file to use to store the parity information.
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=content FILE
Defines the file to use to store the list and checksums of all the
files present in your disk array.
It can be placed in the same disk of the parity and q-aparity files,
It can be placed in the same disk of the parity and q-parity files,
but NOT in a data disk of the array.
This option is mandatory and it can be used more time to save
more copies of the same files.
@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ Configuration
For example, with 10000 files and a 256 KiB block size, you are
going to waste 1.2 GiB.
An example of a typical configuration is:
An example of a typical configuration for Unix is:
:parity /mnt/diskpar/parity
:content /mnt/diskpar/content
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:disk d3 /mnt/disk3/
:exclude *.bak
:exclude /lost+found/
:exclude tmp/
:exclude /tmp/
An example of a typical configuration for Windows is:
:parity E:\par\parity
:content E:\par\content
:content C:\snapraid\content
:disk d1 G:\array\
:disk d2 H:\array\
:disk d3 I:\array\
:exclude *.bak
:exclude Thumbs.db
:exclude \$RECYCLE.BIN\
:exclude \System Volume Information\
Pattern
Patterns are used to select a subset of files to exclude or include in