Apologies if this has been asked before.
I have installed unraid a couple months back, and i am super happy with it, as it gave a whole new life to my old tired nas, and got me started into the rabbit hole that selfhosting/homelab is.

When i setup unraid i setup, I have several shares with primary storage as my cache (ssd), and secondary storage the array (ide), as i misunderstood what the mover actually does.
(i assumed that the mover kept the data in cache, and copied over to array), which i know now it is incorrect.

i would like to correct this to make sure that these shares run solely of my ssd. (one of these shares is my appdata).
I can tell see as example, `/mnt/cache/appdata` has 8Gb of data, `/mnt/user/appdata` has around 22Gb, and `/mnt/disk1/appdata` has 33gb.

My question is what is the best way to back this up (i also have backups of all these done with appdata backup plugin). Some of my shares dont have backups done with this plugin.

Should i:
- attempt to restore backups,
- or can i just copy it across to a new share (if so which folder should i use).
- use shares UI and remove second storage ( i am assuming if i do this, i would potentially end up with just the data from /mnt/cache).
or
- something else entirely.

screenshot of my share setup in case its not clear

 

Edited January 28, 20251 yr by rduarte
adding screenshot

First use the mover to move all the data to the pool, then set the share as pool only.

9 hours ago, JorgeB said:

First use the mover to move all the data to the pool, then set the share as pool only.

Thanks for this. which of the folders above contains the sum of the folders? i thought /mnt/user/appdata would have the sum of cache +pool files, but my disk1 has more files than /mnt/user/appdata
?

also should it be sufficient to stop docker (as its what keeps updating the files to move them) will mover pick them all up? I am running the mover but one of my folders remains the same each time, and there is connected to that folder.

Set to move everything to the pool, run the mover, then see if all files were moved, mover won't move duplicates, and yes, the docker service must be stopped first.

Sorry if it sounds silly but when say `Set to move everything to pool` is there anything else i should do besides making sure nothing is accessing the pools?

29 minutes ago, rduarte said:

Sorry if it sounds silly but when say `Set to move everything to pool` is there anything else i should do besides making sure nothing is accessing the pools?

The procedure is documented here in the online documentation accessible via the ‘Manual’ link at the bottom of the GUI or the DOCS link at the top of each forum page. The Unraid OS->Manual section in particular covers most features of the current Unraid release.

thanks for your help, i didnt read properly some of it. your comments help me threading trough it.