curious as to how other people are using snapraid or if there is a better way. Currently I have my mergerfs setup with tv shows folder and movies folder. I also have a config folder as I figured it would be better. I've tried to just exclude the config folders from the snapraid but no matter what I do I don't have success although I'm not sure if I should be getting rid of them or I should just be snap raiding everything. Snap raid tends to take forever so I been trying to find a way to make it quicker especially since my server is essentially unwatchable while it runs.
How to best use snapraid
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Very difficult to provide any meaningful help when you don't provide detailed information about your hardware and SnapRAID configuration. Best thing to do is to post the snapraid conf file.
Mergerfs and SnapRAID don't have anything to do with each other.They do not depend on each other and do not interact with each other.
As for general SnapRAID performance, sync and scrub operations are CPU and disk intensive. The first full sync and full scrub can take a long time to complete - even days with large arrays and weak CPUs.
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I’m not sure what you are saying. What does my hardware have to do with it? I’m trying to figure out if most people are just using snap raid for media and not the the config files. I had to move the config folders for plex and Jellyfin off the system drive as they would fill it up. But when I do snap raid I usually get things saying that files are changing and shouldn’t be when snap raid is working usually the plex/jellyfin library files
Slow hardware will have poor performance with SnapRAID, especially with the first full sync and scrub.
The Plex Library directory structure (its config) is a very poor candidate for inclusion in SnapRAID. It consists of a huge number of tiny files that frequently change. If this directory is changing while SnapRAID is running, it will throw many warnings. I exclude this directory from SnapRAID.
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This is what I have for excludes but they don't appear to be working as it keeps talking about config files. Do you know what I'm doing wrong? Please advise if there is something else that I can show to make it easier.
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Not sure what you are doing.
I don't put any docker related files or folders in a mergerfs pool.
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