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Drive Integrity Checks

Overview

Working with video creates a tremendous amount of data. In order to avoid ever-increasing costs for fast, redundant, and fully backed up servers, raw footage is archived so that only the project files and the current footage need to be supported (fast/redundant/backed up.)

Background

The primary server has both AMI Footage and TheAttic. New raw footage is stored in numbered folders on AMI Footage and monitored for size. e.g.

AMI Footage 1
AMI Footage 2
[...]
AMI Footage 20/
AMI Footage 21/
AMI Footage 22/
[...]

As the footage folders are filled to the size of a single hard drive - which varies over time and is not a set size - an archival process occurs. This document

Ignoring the standard backup mechanisms to keep this document shorter.

ssh admin@10.101.0.5

/usr/local/opt/e2fsprogs/sbin/badblocks

amifs:~ admin$ smartctl --scan IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT2@2/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice -d ata # IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT2@2/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice, ATA device IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT3@3/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice -d ata # IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/SATA@1F,2/AppleAHCI/PRT3@3/IOAHCIDevice@0/AppleAHCIDiskDriver/IOAHCIBlockStorageDevice, ATA device

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