Symlinks in Unraid - Links between shares

[Gwendolyn Parker]

Hi All,

 

With the energy prices getting higher and higher, I want to optimize my energy consumption. I would like to have one Unraid share synchronized with my Windows PC and only keep my Unraid server up for a couple of hours a day instead of 24/7. To avoid having duplicates of files across my shares, I figured out I might want to create a "Sync" share that would only contain symlinks to other folders so I can keep files I want permanent access to on my workstation.

 

Would the following work using something like the below achieve the desired result.

 

ln -s /mnt/user/Documents /mnt/user/SyncShare/Documents
ln -s /mnt/user/Movies/ToBeWatched /mnt/user/SyncShare/Movies
ln -s /mnt/user/Photos/Recent /mnt/user/SyncShare/ToDo

 

If this is not workable, is there another way to achieve this ?

 

Is there any risk involved with the usage of symlinks ? Is there something you think I should know before typing these commands ?

 

Thank you !