April 4, 201214 yr I've been using rsync to copy data from mounted drives into my user shares, but today it failed to complete a copy because the drive it was copying to ran out of space. The user share and directory structure is based on the configuration wiki, so I would have expected it to begin copying to another disk, but the copy only used one drive. My user share is configured as follows --Media -----------Movies ----------------------HD Movies -------------------------------------Shrek ----------------------------------------------Shrek.iso Where the majority of my movies are .iso's stored in a folder of the same name. My split level is set to 3 based on the wiki, so I would have expected the HD Movies folder to be repeated on multiple disks, and the movie folders, e.g. Shrek to stored on a single disk. I have two other disks in my array with around 2 TB of empty space available. I used the following command to perform the copy rsync -av "/mnt/imported_files/MediaCollection/Movies/HD Movies/" "/mnt/user/Media/Movies/HD Movies/" Sorry I don't have a syslog to post, but I had to shut down my server due to bad weather.
April 4, 201214 yr Did the rsync happen to create the directory structure for the files first before copying the files?
April 4, 201214 yr Author I think you might be on to something there. It did create all of the folders before actually copying the files. I'm guessing unRAID doesn't have a way to recognize that the folder size is expanding and relocate it to a different disk? Is there a way to use rsync to copy the files without having to do multiple copies and get it to span multiple disks?
April 4, 201214 yr I really don't know much about rsync. Maybe someone else will chime in or you can look at the man page and see if there is an option to not create the directory structure first.
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