March 21, 201115 yr i tried asking this before but i dont think i made it clear what im trying to do. i currently have my videos in there own shares called movies/tv/adult/new. what i want to do is make a single share called video and in that share have 4 folders called movies/tv/adult/new with the old share contents in the matching new folder. is there a way to do this without having to acually rewrite all the data? its over 8 tbs so it will take a real long time and i only have about 2 tbs of free space left. thx
March 21, 201115 yr What is confusing about your post is that in techy parlance slashes denote directories. So when you write movies/tv/adult/new it reads as a folder named 'movies' containing a folder named 'tv' containing a folder named 'adult' containing a folder named 'new'. However, I'm guessing that you are actually referring to 4 separate (non-nested) folders with those four names. I believe you can do what you ask by using MC (midnight commander) on the server via Telnet or Putty or the System Console. However, I can't guide you past that as I have no experience using MC.
March 21, 201115 yr You basically go to each disk and move (do not copy) the old shares into the new share. It will happen almost instantaneously. If the video folder does not exist then just create it first. Make sure you match the capitalization. Peter
March 21, 201115 yr After you move each directory inside the new videos directory on each drive you'll have to restart the array for it to pick up the changes. After the array has been restarted you can change the properties and permissions of the new videos share via the webui.
March 23, 201115 yr You basically go to each disk and move (do not copy) the old shares into the new share. It will happen almost instantaneously. If the video folder does not exist then just create it first. Make sure you match the capitalization. Peter Do you mean via MC? If you do that from another computer, won't the data have to travel across the network?
March 23, 201115 yr Any PC or Mac. Just open the disk (not the user share) and MOVE the old share directory into the new one. Only the file table gets updated and no data has to travel over the network. Same applies for any files you move on the same disk. Try it with a little file first if you want. Peter
March 24, 201115 yr Author still cannot make this work without it rewriting the data. i have a user share called movies. inside it contains all my mkv files. i want to instead create a user share called videos and inside that share have a movies folder. i then want to move all the mkvs from the movies share to the new video shares movies folder and then delete the old movies user share. is it possible to do this from my desktop pc without rewriting all the data. im using teracopy if it matters. thx
March 24, 201115 yr If what lionelhutz says is correct (and I assume it is, though I haven't tried it myself), you can just temporarily enable disk shares and then move (cut/paste, do not not copy/paste) your movies folders into another folder named 'videos'. Videos will become the new user share (as it is the root folder) and Movies will become a subfolder inside that. Once you are done reorganizing things you can then disable disk shares if desired.
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.