April 8, 20242 yr Hello everyone, I am planning on moving my drives with data over to a new server with a new license. I will be leaving the old server as a utility server and the new server will be purely entertainment. I will be taking all drives over except for the cache drive. Currently, I only have media in the hard drives and the cache drives hold all app data. I want to make sure I dont lose data from the HDD's when moving them over to the new server. How do I best approach this. The new server will have its own license so its going to be a completely fresh install and I just want to move the HDD's over to the new server. I am not working about dockers or VM's since I can rebuild those with no issue. I just dont want to plug in the drives and Unraids tries to format them. Thanks in advance.
April 8, 20242 yr Community Expert The ‘config’ folder on the flash drive contains all your settings (including your licence). If you copy across the contents of the config folder (except for the licence file) to the flash drive to be used for the new server then all settings are transferred. To give you a chance to check thing out I would recommend, however, that you disable the Docker and VM services on the current server before copying the config folder so that they are not auto started on the new server. You may also want to disable array autostart. Note that Unraid will never automatically format any drive. This always requires manual action from the user.
April 8, 20242 yr Author Super appreciated. Do you know what content from the config I will need to copy over? Since the new server will have a completely new license I want to make sure I dont copy license key or really any of the configs that dont pertain to having the drive run on the new server.
April 8, 20242 yr Author Looking at the config folder it might just be the disk.cfg that I need to copy. Is that correct?
April 8, 20242 yr Community Expert 5 minutes ago, boardinace8 said: Looking at the config folder it might just be the disk.cfg that I need to copy. Is that correct? No. if you want just the drive assignments it is the super.dat file. Having said that why not copy everything over? Avoids you setting everything up from scratch (unless of course you explicitly want to do so).
April 8, 20242 yr Author I do want to setup everything from scratch. I really only want to save the data. The containers and vms will stay on the old server and it will become a utility server and the new server will be strictly for media. Edited April 8, 20242 yr by boardinace8
April 8, 20242 yr Author Thanks for your help @itimpi. I will be doing the move when all the hardware comes in so hopefully it goes smoothly.
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