Snapraid Runner Script

This script runs snapraid and sends its output to the console, a log file and via email. All this is configurable.

It can be run manually, but its main purpose is to be run via cronjob/windows scheduler.

It supports Windows, Linux and macOS and runs on both python2 and python3.

How to use

• If you don’t already have it, download and install the latest python version.
• Download the latest release of this script and extract it anywhere or clone this repository via git.
• Copy/rename the snapraid-runner.conf.example to snapraid-runner.conf and edit its contents. You need to at least configure snapraid.exectable and snapraid.config.
• Run the script via python3 snapraid-runner.py on Linux or py -3 snapraid-runner.py on Windows.

Features

• Runs diff before sync to see how many files were deleted and aborts if that number exceeds a set threshold.
• Can create a size-limited rotated logfile.
• Can send notification emails after each run or only for failures.
• Can run scrub after sync
• Can run smart. For this to work, you need smartmontools. Most Linux distributions will have it installed installed by default.
  • Windows users may install using the packaged .exe installer found at this link or use Chocolatey (i.e., choco install smartmontools).
  • Mac OS users may install using the packaged .dmg installer found at this link or use Homebrew (i.e., brew install smartmontools).
  • Linux users may check for smartmontools using smartctl -V, if not installed use your distribution's package manager to install smartmontools (e.g., apt-get install smartmontools, yum install smartmontools, etc.)

Changelog

v0.4 (17 Aug 2019)

• Add compatibility with python3 (by reed-jones)
• Add support for running snapraid touch (by ShoGinn, PR-11)
• Add SMTP TLS support

v0.3 (20 Jul 2017)

• Limit size of sent emails

v0.2 (27 Apr 2015)

• Fix compatibility with Snapraid 8.0
• Allow disabling of scrub from command line

v0.1 (16 Feb 2014)

• Initial release