July 31, 201213 yr Good evening, I have a couple of 3Tb drives formatted using the OSX file system full of files that I would like to move to my newly updated server. Is there a way to plug in the drives into the unRAID server over an eSata port (which I have) and copy the files directly from those drives to the unRAID array? How would I do that? Thanks in advance!
July 31, 201213 yr Good evening, I have a couple of 3Tb drives formatted using the OSX file system full of files that I would like to move to my newly updated server. Is there a way to plug in the drives into the unRAID server over an eSata port (which I have) and copy the files directly from those drives to the unRAID array? How would I do that? Thanks in advance! probably. You'll need to load the hfsplus driver module by typing modprobe hfsplus and then create a mount point (an empty directory) mkdir /mnt/hfs You'll need to figure out the disk device and partition involved when you plug in the esata drive. DO NOT ASSIGN IT TO THE ARRAY IN ANY WAY. Instead, you can type: ls -l /dev/disk/by-id The apple disk will have multiple partitions. The file system is likely on partition 3 according to examples I've seen on the web. Pretending the base device of the OSX drive is /dev/sdg you would want to mount /dev/sdg3 (note the "3" on the end of the device name, denoting the third partition) If /dev/sdc, use /dev/sdc3, etc... since the hfsplus file system is a journaling file system, you'll not be able to write to it, only read it... but that should work for you) Mount the disk on the mount point mount -o ro -t hfsplus /dev/sdg3 /mnt/hfs Then, type "mc" to enter midnight commander and copy your files from /mnt/hfs to /mnt/disk1/Share-name, or /mnt/user/Share-name When done, un-mount the disk by typing umount /mnt/hfs then mount the second and continue.
July 31, 201213 yr Author Thank you so much Joe! Great, detailed instructions. This will be very helpful. This might be a stupid question, but since I will be copying the data directly from that drive, can/should I copy to the share that is spread across my unRAID disks or will have have to do a copy from the Mac disk to a single disk that is part of the array? Along those lines, will I have to rebuild the parity or will unRAID be aware of the new files and re-do the parity on the go, or will I have to do it manually? To speed the transfer, should I just turn off the array and then do the parity manually? Thanks again.
August 1, 201213 yr Thank you so much Joe! Great, detailed instructions. This will be very helpful. This might be a stupid question, but since I will be copying the data directly from that drive, can/should I copy to the share that is spread across my unRAID disks or will have have to do a copy from the Mac disk to a single disk that is part of the array? Along those lines, will I have to rebuild the parity or will unRAID be aware of the new files and re-do the parity on the go, or will I have to do it manually? To speed the transfer, should I just turn off the array and then do the parity manually? Thanks again. Copy to /mnt/user/share or /mnt/disk# and parity will be maintained.
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