Hi all,
After months of planning and saving I have finally got my first unRAID server up and running. This forum has been a massive help in the planning/building/setup phase and just about every question I've had has been answered by a thread in this amazing community.
I've started to copy my data from all the disks I've managed scrounge up across to my array and was after some advice with an issue I've encountered (I have read a few posts on this but wanted to be sure as this is a one time job that I'd rather not do again). I've decided to setup shares for each media type rather than one all encompassing media location. I'll use my 'tv' share as the example as it has the most files and disks.
I had to transfer some of my files to the new 8 TB disk I bought for my array as I didn't have enough free space to save all the data from my old NAS without re-using a couple of the borrowed disks I was using. I created my array and 'tv' share (high-water, one split level) with my one 8 TB disk and copied over about 4.7 TB of data using Krusader (how good are Spaceinvader One's videos btw). Once my disks from my NAS (4 TB, 3 TB, 3 TB) were emptied/installed/pre-cleared etc. I added them to my 'tv' share and as a bit of a learning experience I started to copy over some more files using Krusader again. I was hoping the data would start to spread out across the disks but it just kept filling up disk 1 which is now 5.7 TB used. I wanted to confirm what I have read that when using Krusader to move your files across to a share location eg. media/user/tv is that it won't follow the high-water rule and spread the files out. If that is the case am I better off working out a rough split of the total size of the remaining files and copying them directly to the 'tv' share folder on the individual disks and manually spreading the data out that way before all the sonarr automation takes over later? I've read another option could be using unBALANCE to scatter the files from disk 1 across to disks 2, 3 and 4. If I go down that route will it follow the split level rule of the share and keep all seasons and episodes of a show under it's show folder when it moves them?
If I have missed something or possibly set my split level wrong and that is causing the chaos I'd be glad if someone could point me in the right direction.
Thanks for your help with this, I'm excited to get it all up and running soon.
CM.