October 1, 20241 yr I am in the process of trying to move my drives to ZFS however it has been a painful process as I don't have anymore slots in my server to expand. I have 13 of 18 drives as ZFS (from XFS). The remaining 5 are 2x 14TB and 3x 8TB. I have been using unbalanced but with only 19TB free it's been kind of a messy ordeal getting it to work. The process takes over a week or two to move the data off the drive, it usually fails 5-10 times throughout the process. One time I ended up duplicating a ton of data (6tbs worth) and just wondering if there is a best way to do it? So I shut down all my dockers except critical ones (like Plex) so nothing is writing to my array for the time it's being done? Should I do smaller batches? Any better way to clear drives when you don't have a ton of space available to easily clear the drives too?
October 1, 20241 yr Community Expert Solution If you update to v7 you can use the mover to empty a disk, it should move all files in one go, as long as they are not being used or are duplicates.
October 1, 20241 yr Author 3 minutes ago, JorgeB said: If you update to v7 you can use the mover to empty a disk, it should move all files in one go, as long as they are not being used or are duplicates. Will it move the data across multiple disks? Also, is it pretty stable? I know its beta, I am not shy for trying to use betas but it also hasn't been updated since July so wasn't sure how safe it is to use. Edited October 1, 20241 yr by wickedathletes
October 1, 20241 yr Community Expert 9 minutes ago, wickedathletes said: Will it move the data across multiple disks? Yes, according to the share allocation and split settings. 10 minutes ago, wickedathletes said: Also, is it pretty stable? IMHO yes.
October 1, 20241 yr Author 22 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Yes, according to the share allocation and split settings. IMHO yes. Is there a specific place to go to do the move/empty a drive? I didn't see anything specific in file browser or scheduler.
October 1, 20241 yr Author 50 minutes ago, JorgeB said: See the release notes, for now it's a CLI command. cool and thank you! so, mover start -e diskN |& logger & or do I have too many "&"? where N = my disk number I need to move I just want to make sure I have the logging part right to.
October 2, 20241 yr Author 12 hours ago, JorgeB said: That's correct. Any guesses on why it would just stop running, didn't see anything in the system log. Oct 1 17:01:30 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E02 - Of Dreams Defiance and Desperate Deeds [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb.nfo Success Oct 1 17:01:30 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E02 - Of Dreams Defiance and Desperate Deeds [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb-thumb.jpg Success Oct 1 17:05:01 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E03 - Of Warriors Wakes and Wondrous Worlds [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb.mkv Success Oct 1 17:05:01 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E03 - Of Warriors Wakes and Wondrous Worlds [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb.nfo Success Oct 1 17:05:01 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E03 - Of Warriors Wakes and Wondrous Worlds [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb-thumb.jpg Success Oct 1 17:05:06 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E04 - Of Mages Malice and Monstrous Mayhem [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb.mkv Success Oct 1 17:05:07 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E04 - Of Mages Malice and Monstrous Mayhem [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb.nfo Success Oct 1 17:05:07 Hades root: move: /mnt/disk6/data/media/tv/The Witcher - Blood Origin (2022) {imdb-tt12785720}/Season 01/The Witcher Blood Origin (2022) - S01E04 - Of Mages Malice and Monstrous Mayhem [Release Sources (Streaming Service)_2_4 WEBDL-1080p][HDR10][EAC3 Atmos 5.1][HEVC]-NTb-thumb.jpg Success Oct 1 22:06:01 Hades monitor_nchan: Stop running nchan processes Oct 1 23:05:53 Hades emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdm Oct 1 23:05:53 Hades emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdj Oct 1 23:05:53 Hades emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdu Oct 1 23:05:53 Hades emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdf Oct 1 23:05:53 Hades emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sdl I just restarted it but it only moved about 300GB of 8TB before it stopped. Edited October 2, 20241 yr by wickedathletes
October 3, 20241 yr Community Expert Did you keep the CLI window open? I don't remember if the command continues if you close it.
October 4, 20241 yr Author On 10/3/2024 at 3:13 AM, JorgeB said: Did you keep the CLI window open? I don't remember if the command continues if you close it. I wonder if there is a way to ignore a disk with the mover command? I think my issue is its loading up the cache drive, which then runs out of space. I noticed my cache drive was full last night.
October 4, 20241 yr Author 31 minutes ago, wickedathletes said: I wonder if there is a way to ignore a disk with the mover command? I think my issue is its loading up the cache drive, which then runs out of space. I noticed my cache drive was full last night. maybe not actually. strike that. I think my cache was full because the mover couldn't run its task since mover was already running doing this task. Still not sure. I keep the window open, its done so far: 300GB 100GB and about 1.5TB before just "stopping."
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