I have (re)built my server, bought a Pro license, and am waiting on my controller card and 1 more hard drive to arrive.  When I get it all put together, this is what it will look like:

 

MSI 880GM-E43 AM3 AMD 880G HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Sempron 140 Sargas 2.7GHz Socket AM3 45W

4 x Mushkin Enhanced Essentials 2GB 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)

Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

1 x WD Green WD20EARX 2TB

4 x SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 ST2000DL004 2TB SATA

4 x WD Green WD15EARS 1.5TB

3 x Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB SATA

 

I've setup user shares for Movies, TV, Documents, Photos, Music, Videos.

Split levels are based on the information I found in the wiki (Movies - 2, TV - 3, Music - 3, Documents - 2, Photos - 2)

I have not excluded/included any specific drives.

 

I transitioned my server from Windows Home Server 2011 to unRaid by backing up all my data onto external USB hard drives (about 10 of them).  Now to load my new server, I obviously will be loading from my usb drives.  I'm assuming copying from the command line or via midnight commander is really the most straight-forward way to do it.  I looked up how to create a mount location for my external drives and that is working for me fine.

 

I noticed in one post I found on MC that someone said to use "sudo -u nobody" when launching MC instead of just launching MC as root, whereas others have just said to use MC.  Is that something I need to worry about?

 

I am still reading various topics in the wiki as I get to them, but is there anything I should specifically be concerned about while loading all my data?

 

Any other tips to keep in mind?

 

Thanks again for all the great info.  If it wasn't for the feedback on this forum, I don't think I would have given unRaid a chance.

 

~Whip

I noticed in one post I found on MC that someone said to use "sudo -u nobody" when launching MC instead of just launching MC as root, whereas others have just said to use MC.  Is that something I need to worry about?

If you move files as root, you will need to run the new permissions utility to set them all back to nobody. Quicker to work it out so the newly moved files have the correct permissions from start if you can manage it. If not, don't worry, just run the utility (may take a while) and all will be good.

I noticed in one post I found on MC that someone said to use "sudo -u nobody" when launching MC instead of just launching MC as root, whereas others have just said to use MC.  Is that something I need to worry about?

If you move files as root, you will need to run the new permissions utility to set them all back to nobody. Quicker to work it out so the newly moved files have the correct permissions from start if you can manage it. If not, don't worry, just run the utility (may take a while) and all will be good.

 

Use the sudo command to avoid having to run the "new permissions" script.