December 5, 201213 yr Hi all, I am going to be upgrading my old spinner cache drive to a ssd drive. My question is how to I keep all the programs I have installed (sab,sick plex, etc) and the settings I have for those apps and the seperate cache only share I had to create for one of the programs? I'm looking forward to a bit of a boos in performance and hopefully the plex library will also benefit from the switch. Thanks!
December 5, 201213 yr You'll probably want to stop all the apps that are running on the cache drive before copying them and before replacing the disk.
December 11, 201213 yr Author Ok So it seems I am getting a permissions error when trying to copy the file from my cach drive to a disk share. I am accessing the shares as guest, do I need to do so as root? Also when I move everything back will it keep the correct permissions? Do I need to format my cache drive or will the drive be setup when I assign it as a cache drive? Sorry for all the questions, but I want to make sure I migrate everything smoothly. With a new little one at home it means I don't have much time to troubleshoot my stupid errors.
December 11, 201213 yr best to do the copying over telnet. cp -r -v -p /mnt/cache/YOUR_APP_DIR /mnt/disk1/APP_DIR_BACKUP what does this do: -r: copy recursive (copy all files and subdirectories) -v: verbose (tells you, what is going on. so you know, it's still doing something) -p: preserve owner, timestamp, permissions (otherwise, all copied files would have root:root ownership) you could also use rsync, but the command above works as well. i'm currently not sure, if the cache drive is formatted automatically. i believe not... (i formatted my drive manually, if i remember correctly)
December 11, 201213 yr i'm currently not sure, if the cache drive is formatted automatically. i believe not... (i formatted my drive manually, if i remember correctly) I just put a cache drive in my HP N40L server. unRAID (5.0rc4) showed it as unformatted and displayed the format option which I checked and selected. Couple of minutes later it was formatted and ready for use. So if that is what you meant by formatting manually then yes it is NOT automatic.
December 11, 201213 yr nope, that is what i mean by "automatic" (or semi-automatic) i did it manually over telnet. i believe, if the drive is already reiserfs formatted, unraid will just accept it.
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