Hi all,

 

I would really appreciate some direction on the below teething issue i am having with the setup of Unraid. I have recently setup my first unraid server (ver.4.7) with two 1TB disks. Before transferring data I setup two user shares; Movies and TV. My directories are the common setup:

Movies>Movie Name Folder>Movie Name File

TV>TV Show Name>TV show season>TV show episode

 

I set Movies to a split share of 1 and TV to a split share of 2, each with the high-water allocation method and min. 10gb of free space.

I started an rsync to migrate data across to my array (parity not configured). I ran out of space on the first disk, rsync closed the connection. This made me think my split levels were not set correctly. I read up on the wiki about split shares, but evidently did not understand it correctly.

I then set my Movies split level to 2 and TV to 3 and restarted my rsync task which started to use the second disk. This transfer was stopped (by me) and resumed today. The data will now only go to the first disk, which has subsequently reached full capacity (20kb left).

 

Could someone please confirm my split levels are ok for my setup? And that altering them after storing data in a user share should not cause a problem.

Should i reduce the min amount of free space for governing whether a file should reside on a disk?

Why will unraid not use the second disk (that it had used before?)

What is the best method to free up a little disk space on my fist disk (assuming 20kb is unsafe).

 

Really appreciate some guidance.

 

regards

 

James

 

What are the disk sizes and free space?

Settings were fine. rsync created the directories first and then tried to fill them which resulted in your full disk since the directories were then locked to disk1. You'll likely find a bunch of empty directories on disk1 that don't need to be there.

Thanks you both for your input.

 

@dgaschk :

                                                                                                                        Size          Used        %used      Free     

/dev/md1 /mnt/disk1 /dev/sdb ST1000DM000-9TS1_5YA0F2M7 * 1.00T 1.00T 100% 21.00K

/dev/md2 /mnt/disk2 /dev/sdc ST31000528AS_5VP16Z9W         * 1.00T 560.15G 57%         440.02G

                                            Total: 2.00T 1.56T 78%         440.02G

@lionelhutz

Aah i see! You're right there, lots of empty directories...In the configuration tutorial it says rsync is an acceptable transfer method. Should i remove empty directories and transfer remaining data over the network?

You should clear out the empty directories, reset to your initial correct settings and keep moving data.

 

I don't believe you can force rsync to create the directories one at a time as the files are copied. I've looked and don't see any options that appear they would do that. However, the mover script must do it that way for it to follow the share settings. So, a look through that script may provide a clue how to do it.

 

Thanks lionelhutz, i'll revert my config and do as you have suggested. Fingers crossed!

 

re the mover script, this appears to utilise a cache drive. I do not have one of these setup....yet.

Yes, but I've read the mover uses rsync and it manages to respect the share settings so maybe there's some rsync trick to be found.

Had a look at the mover script, that rsync task sure has some secrets to it! Lots of switches and a few dependencies that at this point my knowledge does not stretch to.

 

I copied the remaining data one series/film at a time but using multiple rsync tasks. The wiki might need updating to caution users who want to use a standard rsync to copy lots of directories like i wanted to.

 

Thanks for the guidance guys. Im off to buy a license, add another data drive and get some parity on the go!

You can update the wiki to point out the issue.