Best way to change folder structure?

[joshsalvi]

Hi, my setup currently has a number of top-level shares, eg

/mnt/user/downloads/mnt/user/tv/mnt/user/movies/mnt/user/music

 

However, this leads to full copies of files rather than Hardlinks in multiple directories.

 

I’d like to restructure my directories according to trash guides here https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Unraid/

 

Is there a straightforward way to take my many TBs of existing data and restructure them using hardlinks per the guide above? I imagine this has been done before but didn’t find a guide for this specific case.

 

Thank you! Happy to provide more details as needed!

[itimpi]

I am trying to understand why you need hard links?    It looks as if all the shares except ‘downloads’ have mutually exclusive content so once you move a file from the ‘downloads’ share to the correct target share no hard link is required.   What am I missing?

[joshsalvi]

4 hours ago, itimpi said:

I am trying to understand why you need hard links?    It looks as if all the shares except ‘downloads’ have mutually exclusive content so once you move a file from the ‘downloads’ share to the correct target share no hard link is required.   What am I missing?

Right, the problem is that if I want to continue seeding, it's helpful to have a copy in the Downloads directory and in the corresponding media directory. The other reason is that this speeds up importing the file to nearly instantaneous when using radarr/sonarr/lidarr, as opposed to moving the file itself. The guide I linked above delves into this a bit, but perhaps I'm complicating it too much?

[samarrs]

On 8/8/2023 at 10:57 AM, joshsalvi said:

Right, the problem is that if I want to continue seeding, it's helpful to have a copy in the Downloads directory and in the corresponding media directory. The other reason is that this speeds up importing the file to nearly instantaneous when using radarr/sonarr/lidarr, as opposed to moving the file itself. The guide I linked above delves into this a bit, but perhaps I'm complicating it too much?

I am in exact same situation. Were you able to find any easier way to do this? Thabks in advance.

Edited January 29 by samarrs

[MJWSay]

Did you find a solution to this? Same problem for me I almost finished transferring all my data then read the trash guides rookie mistake I know