I needed to import my data after installing Unraid. After I got unRAID up and running, I:

 

1. disabled the cache pool for the share I am copying the data to since I will be importing 1.5 TBs
2. plugged my ext4 formatted USB drive into the system
3. used the unassigned devices plugins to mount the drive as read-only
4. opened a terminal from the WebUI
5. used rsync to copy the files from /mnt/disks/backup to /mnt/user/data
6. ran Tools > New Permissions on all my drives/shares -- none of the articles/guides I read, including https://wiki.unraid.net/Transferring_Files_Within_the_unRAID_Server, mentioned this but I couldn't access the files until I did this and it sorta makes sense that you gotta fix permissions when importing data
7. re-enabled the cache pool for the share

 

Is there anything else I need to do? I wasn't sure if copying data like this outside of Unraid's normal control might break anything.

Edited September 10, 20214 yr by IMTheNachoMan

3 hours ago, IMTheNachoMan said:

ran Tools > New Permissions on all my drives/shares

You can break some dockers by doing New Permissions on appdata.

Damn. That explains why my Plex stopped working. Now to reset it.  Thank you!

There is a Docker Safe New Perms that will skip appdata, or you can do New Permissions on specific shares and leave appdata out of that.

6 hours ago, trurl said:

Docker Safe New Perms

 

Where is that? I can't find it.

Part of Fix Common Problems (Tools Menu)

2 hours ago, Squid said:

Part of Fix Common Problems (Tools Menu)

There is no "Fix Common Problems" option....

 

You should install the plugin Fix Common Problems to have this option.

It might a good idea in any case as the plugin can find quite a lot of little or big issues in a server configuration as well as provide useful tools.

Got it. Thank you so much!