January 13, 201214 yr Setup my unraid server last night and so far it's been great. I'm kind of struggling on how exactly to get it how I dreamed it would be though. My ideal setup would have /Movies and /TV separated over multiple drives.. For example: disk1/Movies/Movie (2011)/movie.rar disk2/Movies/Movie 2 (2011)/movie2.rar disk1/TV/Show 1/Season 00/Show 1/Show1.rar disk2/TV/Show 2/Season 00/Show 2/Show2.rar I would like \\tower\Movies to show me: Movies\Movie (2011) Movies\Movie 2 (2011) And \\tower\TV to show me: TV\Show 1 TV\Show 2 Also, i'd like the reverse to work as well. Dropping stuff into \\tower\Movies or \\tower\TV it would decide whatever disk to best put them on. Is this possible? What kind of user share / split level would I need to accomplish this?
January 13, 201214 yr Just make 2 user shares called Movies and TV. Start with a split level of 1 and a high water allocation method.
January 13, 201214 yr The way Shares work is kinda Magical. As long as you have the same folder "Share Names" on multiple drives it will show up as only one listing. For Example. disk1\Movies disk2\Movies disk3\TV disk4\TV disk5\MP3 disk6\MP3 All you will see in your shares when you view on your network is the following Movies TV MP3
January 13, 201214 yr Author lionel thanks for the reply. reading a little more into user shares it appears that level 1 would work fine for movies, but for TV i might need to go a little deeper? since i'd have show/season 00/show/
January 13, 201214 yr Author The way Shares work is kinda Magical. As long as you have the same folder "Share Names" on multiple drives it will show up as only one listing. For Example. disk1\Movies disk2\Movies disk3\TV disk4\TV disk5\MP3 disk6\MP3 All you will see in your shares when you view on your network is the following Movies TV MP3 this is what i originally thought when i was first getting my hands dirty but i read on the unraid site http://lime-technology.com/technology/usershares Resolving name conflicts Suppose in above example you also have: disk6/Videos/Camping Now there are two potential references to Camping; in this case, unRAID Server keeps the first reference and drops subsequent ones. The name Camping in the Videos share will thus refer to Camping on disk1. Note that the file/folder is not deleted, it’s simply not visible. unRAID Server scans the disks in numeric order; the reference kept of a conflicting set of names is the one in the lowest numbered disk.
January 13, 201214 yr level 1 would keep the whole TV show on a single disk. So, yes you might want to use level 2 to keep each season on a single disk but allow different season to go to different disks. I use 1 and just re-arrange things if necessary. I just drag and drop a few seasons between disks before I go to bed. Happens about once a year. Use the most free allocation method and the new shows will go where there's the most space which can help. Kizer is correct. The contents of the same directories on each disk are combined to a single view. It's when a file occurs on 2 different disks in the same location that the second one isn't visible. Peter
January 13, 201214 yr Personally I do not write to my User Shares because all of the split levels kinda confused me. I do the following personally. I manually browse to my drives and write to them. All of the below Disk shares are set to hidden, but read/write \\tower\disk1\Movies\ \\tower\disk1\TV\ \\tower\disk2\TV\ \\tower\disk3\Movies\ \\tower\disk4\MP3\ \\tower\disk4\Photos\ \\tower\disk4\MISC\ \\tower\disk4\Ebooks\ . . . . . . User Shares are set to read only EBooks Movies MISC MP3 Photos TV Its a little bit of a hassel, but honestly its been working out for me just great. I'd guess any method anybody chooses will work for them. I just like to control my data more than just letting the system put things where it wants by simply manually putting files where I want and my Media players find them simply because the User Shares do their thing. Its awesome when you move files from one drive to another and nobody knows or even notices because they are mapped in the background. I tend to rearrange TV series and movies based on whats older and might not get updated as often to disk1 and newer content to disk2 and disk3. Its just something I do. More or less maximizing my space my way.
January 13, 201214 yr Author level 1 would keep the whole TV show on a single disk. So, yes you might want to use level 2 to keep each season on a single disk but allow different season to go to different disks. I use 1 and just re-arrange things if necessary. I just drag and drop a few seasons between disks before I go to bed. Happens about once a year. Use the most free allocation method and the new shows will go where there's the most space which can help. Kizer is correct. The contents of the same directories on each disk are combined to a single view. It's when a file occurs on 2 different disks in the same location that the second one isn't visible. Peter this sounds like what i'm trying to do.. looks like level 1 high water will work for movies and level 2 most free allocation for tv? i'll definitely give that a try when i get a chance. thanks! EDIT: actually it looks like i want level 3 for TV.. don't mind me, just talking to myself, lol. maybe this can be helpful for other people 3.Level 3 The top level Media share can be created on every disk. The DVD Movies, BluRay Movies and TV Shows folders can be created on every disk. Each Movie Folder and TV Show Folder can be created on every disk. Each Season Folder must remain on a single disk.\ This setting will allow the contents stored in each Movie Folder to be spread out onto multiple disks. This setting is too high for the different movie types.
January 14, 201214 yr The wiki example has an extra directory level compared to using TV as the user share. So, the description for 3 from the wiki as it applies to the TV series would be the same as using 2 when you make TV the user share. Peter
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