April 12, 201115 yr Had a question for the rsync users out there... Is there anything I have to watch out for when setting up an rsync job between two unraid servers, when it comes to copying TO an unraid server with user shares that span multiple drives? Example - On SERVER1 I have 5TB of data in a user share called 'video'. On SERVER2 I have a video share also created, and i'm not specifying drives and have a split level of 1, so it has three 2TB, 6TB total of free space. When I copy data to SERVER2/video from my windows host, it'll cross over to disk2 when disk1 is full When I rsync data to SERVER2 from SERVER1, it'll fill up disk1 and shoot an out of space error. Am I specifying incorrect folder trees perhaps? I don't want to do a 1:1 disk1/disk2/etc copy between these servers, as I don't want to necessarily keep a 1:1 ratio of hard drives on my primary and backup system... and perhaps I'll juggle around disk size later on...where disk1 on SERVER1 might be 3tb (someday) and disk1 on the server2 would still be 2tb... unRAID is working, I'm just sort of bypassing the disk spanning feature somehow Pete
April 13, 201115 yr Author In fact if I set the share to only use disk2, it ignores it all together and copies the data right to disk1...
April 13, 201115 yr What about allocation method and split level? It could be the split level of 1 that id causing the problem.
April 13, 201115 yr Author OMG... I think you nailed it... I'm thinking about the shares all backwards... basically adjusted this to 3 and that solved the issue. It was trying to copy a large folder 3 levels deep and it wouldn't allow it to expand to other disks.. I'm thinking of this in reverse..like 1 is allowing the subfolders to spread across the disks... I'm going to rerun my original config and see how it goes... Thank you!! Pete
April 13, 201115 yr It could be the split level of 1 causing the problem. It means that no directories below the top level of the share will be split among disks. The number is the lowest directory that you want to split.
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