March 8, 200818 yr I'm trying to figure out the best way to get the existing data on my server over to unraid. I have 7 drives in my server, they are less than half full. I will empty some of the drives onto the remaining drives. Boot into unraid and create an array with the empty drives. Would unraid "see" the remaining drives and the data on them so that I can copy that data over to the newly created array? If so, I would then wipe the remaining drives after the data transfer and add those to the array. Would that work? The only other option I can see is buying a 1.5tb external and those are far more money than I want to pay.
March 8, 200818 yr unRaid will only use the drives you assign. The other drives will remain untouched until you assign them to the unRaid array. You can manually mount and access the un-assigned drives to move the data as long as unRaid knows how to deal with the file systems on the old disks. Before we can give you more specific instructions, what type of file systems are on the old disks. Are then FAT, FAT32, NTFS, or one of the native linux filesystem types? Were they in a windows RAID array??? that would complicate things as the data on them might be in a proprietary format. Joe L.
March 8, 200818 yr Author Drives are in a NTFS format. They aren't in a raid array. They were part of WHS. However each drive can be removed and the data accessed via other computers. The data is no longer organized all nice and neat when doing this, but it is accessible. Which is fine.
March 8, 200818 yr The answer is in the wiki here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Copy_files_from_a_NTFS_drive Read through the entire set of commands. In many cases, people have supplied better commands than the ones I originally described (better options)
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