[Plugin] unbalanced
Introduction
unbalanced is a plugin to transfer files/folders between disks in your array.
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Description
unbalanced helps you manage space in your Unraid array, via two operating modes:
Scatter
Transfer data out of a disk, into one or more disks
Gather
Consolidate data from a user share into a single disk
It's versatile and
I did some massive file movement - in fact it was consolidation of shares to dedicated drives, as the spread led to significant spin-up times.
I'd like to feed back some of my experience and suggest some points that can possibly be improved.
1. Most of my issues rooted in missing permissions.
Unfortunately rsync's failure messages are very cryptic thus useless most of the time.
It will never tell you that you have permission issues! The plugin does, but not "strong enough".
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