Rootshare, Samba and Linux

[erfly7]

Trying to plan reorganization of shares into something more like Trash-guides setup.

 

But pretty lost in how to move files from the old top level shares to the new Trash-guides like share.

 

Understand from Spaceinvader the creating it under SMB in unriad

 

But I don't use Windows on the machine I access Unraid so any help on how to move stuff over SMB on Linux?

[JonathanM]

First, the trash setup doesn't use a rootshare, a term which is used to describe a single share that shows all the normal Unraid shares as folders. Trash recommends only using a single normal Unraid share for your media all the way through the import process, from acquisition to long term storage. That means having your downloads in the same share as your organized media.

 

Unraid shares are simply identically named root folders on each disk, so to move the contents of /mnt/user/tv to /mnt/user/media/tv the most efficient way to do that is directly on each disk one at a time move /mnt/disk1/tv to /mnt/disk1/media/tv. That move would be almost instant, and you would just repeat this action on each disk that contained the root folder /mnt/diskX/tv. Using mc at the Unraid console would be the most efficient way. Just be sure never to mix /mnt/user paths with other paths. For the purposes of this example, stay out of /mnt/user entirely.

 

The trash guides really only have value for someone wishing to utilize torrents to keep copies of what they acquire available for long term seeding, and they force you to give up any security and storage granularity for all those files. I wouldn't bother going through all the hassle just on a whim.

[Terebi]

On 8/13/2023 at 8:46 AM, JonathanM said:

The trash guides really only have value for someone wishing to utilize torrents to keep copies of what they acquire available for long term seeding, and they force you to give up any security and storage granularity for all those files. I wouldn't bother going through all the hassle just on a whim.

 

Thread necromancy here, but I'd just add that while what you say about torrents is true, there are benefits for usenet as having instant imports from the arr apps into media shares is quite nice.  But the tradeoffs you mention are indeed important to realize. 

[JonathanM]

15 minutes ago, Terebi said:

there are benefits for usenet as having instant imports from the arr apps into media shares is quite nice.

Not sure shaving a minute or two off the process is worth the tradeoff. Most people don't bother watching media the exact second it's downloaded, unless they manually triggered the download.