BCCHowdy Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 (edited) Hello! New to Unraid and absolutely loving it so far! Thanks for this awesome piece of software. My mover does not appear to be moving. I currently have about 27GB of appdata on the cache drive and the mover isn't offloading those files to the array. I've browsed all of the drives in the array and none of the system folders appear (appdata, domains, system). Manually invoking the mover results in instant "mover: started mover: finished" log entries. The mover is scheduled as default to run every morning but it's not moving anything. From reviewing previous posts I've tried: Stop VM Manager and Docker, then manually move - no change Update something in all the shares and click apply, then manually move - no change Stop the array, change something in the global shares settings, start the array and manually move - no change The only thing I haven't done is restart the entire system. Logs are attached. Thank you for your assistance! -Howdy tower-diagnostics-20210116-0802.zip Edited January 17, 2021 by BCCHowdy Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Shares set as "prefer" are moved to cache, not array, see here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/46802-faq-for-unraid-v6/?do=findComment&comment=537383 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 From those diagnostics it looks like the only shares that still have files on cache are appdata, domains, system, and you want these to stay on cache for better performance and so array disks won't stay spunup. You shouldn't change anything. Quote Link to comment
BCCHowdy Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 JorgeB - Thanks for this explanation, that clears up the behavior. Constructor - I realize the cache drive should be used for speed and frequent writes, but the cache drive is not protected from failure in any way like the array is. My thinking was if the cache is offloaded nightly to the array then I have somewhat of a backup of this information protected on the array should the cache drive fail. Perhaps this is flawed thinking since files in use are not moved and this would be a partial copy and potentially useless in restoration efforts. If my thinking is flawed then what would be the recommended practice to backup the appdata contents to protect against failure of the cache drive? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 12 minutes ago, BCCHowdy said: JorgeB - Thanks for this explanation, that clears up the behavior. Constructor - I realize the cache drive should be used for speed and frequent writes, but the cache drive is not protected from failure in any way like the array is. My thinking was if the cache is offloaded nightly to the array then I have somewhat of a backup of this information protected on the array should the cache drive fail. Perhaps this is flawed thinking since files in use are not moved and this would be a partial copy and potentially useless in restoration efforts. If my thinking is flawed then what would be the recommended practice to backup the appdata contents to protect against failure of the cache drive? Use the CA Backup plugin for any docker/container related files. Quote Link to comment
BCCHowdy Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 Thanks! I'm in good shape now. Quote Link to comment
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