From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Paul Waldo <pwaldo@waldoware.com>
Subject: Care and feeding of RAID?
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:48:44 -0400
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Hi all,

I have a RAID6 array and I wondering about care and feeding instructions :-)

Here is what I currently do:
    - daily incremental and weekly full backups to a separate machine
    - run smartd tests (short once a day, long once a week)
    - check the raid for bad blocks every week

What else can I do make sure the array keeps humming?  Thanks in advance!