February 3, 20233 yr So, asking for a friend... What is the best way (verifying data integrity) to move the data out of Unraid into another data storage system like Truenas or just back into a regular disk? Like what is the actual safe process, because technically there are a bunch of ways of achieving this. My assumption is: 1. Buy a new hard drive as large as the array. 2. Run pre-clear to ensure it is clear and to pre-test it. 3. Turn off dockers/VM's, have nothing using the Array. then.. ?4. Add the hard drive as a UD and copy everything from the array '/unraid/user/' using Krusader. ?4. Add the hard drive in another system, and then copy everything using robocopy (with a 10G nic). 5. Wipe the USB and array drives and use a new system. 6. Move data back into new system.
February 3, 20233 yr Community Expert If you want to verify integrity you can use rsync with the checksum option, note that it will take a long time, unless there are suspected issues a normal rsync transfer should maintain integrity.
February 5, 20233 yr Author On 2/3/2023 at 2:16 PM, JorgeB said: If you want to verify integrity you can use rsync with the checksum option, note that it will take a long time, unless there are suspected issues a normal rsync transfer should maintain integrity. Could you provide me with directions on how I would go about using rsync?
February 6, 20233 yr Community Expert You can Google "rsync man page" for all the options, but basically would be: rsync -avc /path/to/source/ /path/to/dest/
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