A quieter hour
The nightly backup used to start at 11 PM, which is the busiest hour of the evening on this server. It runs at 4 AM now, when almost nobody is watching.
Nightly backups moved to 4 AM
They were overlapping with the busiest hour of the evening. Nothing to do on your side.
What changed
What you should notice
Nothing — that is the point
If you saw a stutter late in the evening, the backup reading the disks at the same time was the likely cause. It should be gone.
Nothing foundNothing in this article matches that.
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Announcements
September on the server
Two hundred films, a faster library, Wrapped and Friday's watch party — the month, written out.
Library
Two hundred films added overnight
The 4K remaster shelf and the whole Studio Ghibli run arrived in one night — what is on them, and how to get 4K to your screen.
Maintenance
The library moved to faster storage
Sunday's maintenance moved the whole library to a new NVMe pool. Playback starts faster, and transcodes stop queuing.