Re: How often to run self-tests?

"Ivan Lezhnjov Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
So, no consensus on this or … ?

On Dec 7, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Ivan Lezhnjov Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> while reading the man pages I realized that there were some suggestions as to how often certain types of tests could be run. Are they arbitrary or can they be used at least as a sensible starting point?
> 
> Per man pages long test can be run weekly, short test daily, automatic offline immediate could be run per vendor default choice of typically each 4 hours and so on.
> 
> Well, how often should one run these tests? Any known best practices? Recommendations?
> 
> Ivan


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