Hi, in my UnRaid box, I have a single "temp" driver, a btrfs "Pool" array and the main UnRaid array.  I know for each share, I can designate a primary storage and a secondary story and Move will move files from primary to secondary when Mover is run.

 

What happens if say for a particular share, I initially set the primary as the single "temp" drive and the UnRaid array as the secondary, I then move some files, which will then reside on the "temp" drive, but before they are moved to the array, I change the primary location from the "temp" drive to the btrfs "Pool"?  If I run Move now, will Move be smart enough to know to also move the files that are on the "temp" drive?  Or will those be "orphaned"?

 

If I'm in this situation, I can I get UnRaid to fix itself so that all files are located per the current settings for primary and secondary storage ie, with primary being the btrfs "Pool" and secondary as the UnRaid array, and have all the files that are on "Temp" moved to the btrfs "Pool"?

 

Thank you

6 hours ago, Hammer8 said:

If I run Move now

It will move them to the current secondary pool set.

Hi, thanks.  Would you be able to elaborate?  What do you mean it will move to the current secondary pool set?

 

Do you mean Mover will be smart enough to move the files from the “initial” primary storage (which is no longer designated as primary) to the “current” primary storage?

 

 

Edited March 19, 20251 yr by Hammer8

2 minutes ago, Hammer8 said:

What do you mean it will move to the current secondary pool set?

If you click on a share, you can set the primary storage and the secondary storage, also the mover action, default is primary to secondary, so if you then use the mover, it will move the data to the secondary storage, more info below:

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/release-notes/6.12.0/#share-storage-conceptual-change

Thank you, but I don’t think the article answers my question or at least I don’t think it does.  My question is what happens if I change the primary storage after the share is created.  Will Mover be smart enough to move the files that resides on the “initial” primary storage to the “current” primary storage or will the files remain on the “initial”/old primary storage?

1 minute ago, Hammer8 said:

Thank you, but I don’t think the article answers my question or at least I don’t think it does.  My question is what happens if I change the primary storage after the share is created.  Will Mover be smart enough to move the files that resides on the “initial” primary storage to the “current” primary storage or will the files remain on the “initial”/old primary storage?

The files will remain where they are.    Unraid never moves files unless the share settings are such that mover gets involved and moves files between the CURRENT primary and Secondary storage