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Thanks again! Mover did the trick after stopping Docker and VM Manager. No more system directory on disk1! I'm running a Long Generic Test in SeaTools on my 16TBs as a pre-check before I throw them in the server. Hoping to get started on the 8TB>16TB moves tomorrow! Second part of this process is going to be using these 5 8TB (assuming they all test successfully after removing them) to replace eight 4TB drives in my backup server, so I'll follow a similar process over there with the caveat that I only have 1 parity drive over there, so will have to repeat the process 5 times, then copy the remaining 3 4TB drives before removing them. Thanks for your help! I feel more comfortable moving forward

Thanks. It looks like disk1 contains docker.img and libvirt.img. When I browse to system on the cache drive, while those directories both exist, they are both empty, no .img files. Is that something I simply can mv to /mnt/cache/system? I see Docker has the path /mnt/user/system, will that still see the file when I move it or do I need to update another setting somewhere with the updated location? Thanks for your help.

You did say "Dashboard", didn't you Looks good:

Oh. Is that something I need to look at changing/correcting? Anything I need to worry about going through this process? disk1 is one of the 8TBs that's going away.

Is the "Errors" column where I'd see SMART errors? Looks clean.

Thanks for the feedback! Attaching diagnostics. FYI, all 5 of the 8TBs are roughly 90% utilized right now. If I'm following your guidance, would this be the suggested procedure: Stop Array Unassign 2 8TB drives Install and assign 2 16TB drives Start array and let rebuild. Once complete, stop array again Unassign a 3rd 8TB drive Install and assing 1 16TB drive Start array and let rebuild Once complete rsync -avX --progress /mnt/disk4/ /mnt/disk10 (disk4 being one of the final 2 of the 8TB, disk 10 being one of the previously upgraded 16TB) rsync -avX --progress /mnt/disk5/ /mnt/disk11 (disk5 being the final of the 8TB, disk 11 being another of the previously upgraded 16TB) Stop array, unassign last 2 8TB. Start array and rebuild a final time. unraidserver1-diagnostics-20220630-0931.zip

I currently have 12 drives in my array, 5 of which are 8TB drives. I have dual 16TB parity drives already up and running. I have 3 new 16TB drives that I want to use to replace the 5 8TB and leave an additional 8TB free. What's the best way to go about this? Do I need to add 1 16TB at a time and do something like this? Stop array Add the 3 16TB New config, assign the 3 new drives, unassign both parity, start array rsync -avX --progress /mnt/disk1/ /mnt/disk2 /mnt/disk10 (disk1 and disk2 being 2 of the 8TB, disk 10 being a new 16TB) let that process complete rsync -avX --progress /mnt/disk3/ /mnt/disk4 /mnt/disk11 (disk3 and disk4 being 2 of the 8TB, disk 11 being a new 16TB) let that process complete rsync -avX --progress /mnt/disk5/ /mnt/disk12 (disk5 being the final 8TB, disk 12 being a new 16TB) I realize this is not the "safe" approach, but that would require 3 parity rebuilds, right? I do have a full backup. Is there another way to fire off all 3 of those commands simultaneously or is that a bad idea? Any other/better approach? Thanks in advance!

Ok, thanks for your feedback

Bumping to see if anyone has any input. Thanks!

Good day! I have a question about the order that rsync does things. I can share my rsync commands if needed. I'm hoping this is a simple question :) When I run an rsync between my main and backup Unraid servers, I noticed as I got lower on space that if I was doing a large sync, it would fill up one drive on the backup server rather than respecting my split levels. What I think I observed is that rsync starts off by creating all of the empty directories, so technically, Unraid is respecting my split level settings, but since all of the directories got configured before the files inside them, they aren't given a chance to split to other drives. Is there a way to have rsync create one directory and it's files/sub directories at a time? I've resorted to performing a copy/paste from my Windows workstation between each Unraid share as this appears to one directory at a time, therefore actually moving to a new disk as it hits the split level settings. Make sense? If I'm doing small backups, no big deal, but if I end up with a TB of data, it can cause issues if rsync sticks it all on one disk instead of allowing unraid to divvy files up. Thanks in advance!

So even with SSL, still not recommended? I'll check out OpenVPN. I had installed the client, but I'm assuming for this it would be OpenVPN AS, right?

Hello all! Fairly new Unraider here. I just upgraded to 6.5 and setup the SSL certificate. I'm able to access my server successfully internally on my network, with the old hostname or the new string of numbers, so it appears to be working. I attempted to forward port 443 from my router to my server (I had previously done this for temporary access over port 80 without issue), but I can't seem to access it via the long string or just my public IP prefixed with https://. Is there something else I would need to do to access externally? Other ports involved? Thanks in advance!