Replacing WHS with Amahi

[taa]

I'm considering going with Amahi as I get frequent WHS "file conflicts" of the kind that my only choice is to delete the file. These are files in duplicated folders, and when all drives show as healthy. I don't understand why the second (duplicated) file also goes missing. I've lost several files because of this, some irreplaceable, had a drive become completely corrupted, had to rebuild WHS from scratch... WHS just isn't working for me.

My questions:

1) How does Amahi/Greyhole alert me if there's a problem? For example, could it send me an email?

2) Are there plans to incorporate smartctl in the Amahi GUI (dashboard?)? I've seen several posts in these forums about having to run it manually.

Maybe another way to put this is: Does Amahi/Greyhold proactively check for errors?

3) If I put Fedora/Amahi on it's own (small) drive -- everything OS related, and ONLY everything OS related, if it crashes and I need to recover from a backup, especially in the case where many new files have been added to the Greyhole pool since the backup was made, will Amahi/Greyhole know what to do? Or will I only "see" the files that Amahi/Greyhole saw at the time the OS drive was backed up?

[cpg]

1) How does Amahi/Greyhole alert me if there's a problem? For example, could it send me an email?

This is not available at the moment, however, it would be good to have it as a feature request (bugs.amahi.org -- under the "platform" project).

2) Are there plans to incorporate smartctl in the Amahi GUI (dashboard?)? I've seen several posts in these forums about having to run it manually.

Maybe another way to put this is: Does Amahi/Greyhold proactively check for errors?

Fedora does, however, there is no current notification. The only smart info is temperature. We should find a way to get at that info and present it. (another good feature!)

3) If I put Fedora/Amahi on it's own (small) drive -- everything OS related, and ONLY everything OS related, if it crashes and I need to recover from a backup, especially in the case where many new files have been added to the Greyhole pool since the backup was made, will Amahi/Greyhole know what to do? Or will I only "see" the files that Amahi/Greyhole saw at the time the OS drive was backed up?

if the configuration has not changed, i *think* it should automatically pick up and adapt, however, gbeaudreau may chip in.

[moredruid]

you can configure & run smartd (and forget about it), it will monitor your HDDs & mail you if configured.
It's not hard to configure - just google for it or read the man page.

Perhaps this should be configured in the Amahi release/package by default, this seems to be a oft-requested feature.