March 19, 201313 yr So, here is the deal... My brother-in-law just built his first unraid box. He ordered two more 2TB drives and had them shipped to my house. What I would like to do is.... - prepare them as if they are going to be added to my array (pre-clear + format?) - mount each as a drive outside of my array - create a folder on each that is the same name as one of my BIL's user shares - copy data from my array to each drive - unmount each drive and ship them back to him - have him add the drives to his array and hopefully fall right into place I know that this has been done and talked about. Can someone point me to a thread? I have a "test" drive available right now that I already pre-cleared (see pic). I just don't know where to go from here. S.N.A.P.? TIA! John
March 20, 201313 yr Author Anyone? I was thinking that the easiest option would be the following... - preclear the disk - add it to my array - create a share...something other than one of my existing shares - copy data - remove drive from array and unassin it - resync parity Does that sound like it would work? Also, when my BIL gets the drive, can he just rename the folder I created to one of his typical user share names? Will this just absorb that folder/data into the user share? John
March 21, 201313 yr Should work. If you add the drive as a cache drive then you don't need to recalculate parity. Copy the data to a cache-only share.
March 21, 201313 yr Author Should work. If you add the drive as a cache drive then you don't need to recalculate parity. Copy the data to a cache-only share. That's a damn good idea!!! Thx for the tip John
March 21, 201313 yr Be very careful when adding an additional drive to an existing array (when your brother-in-law goes to add the disk to his array.) The display will likely say it will CLEAR any newly added disks, and it will, zeroing all the files you were intending to transfer. After adding the disk to the target array, your BIL must set a new disk configuration before starting the array. That will then immediately invalidate parity on that array and set the array to re-calculate parity with the newly added disk as part of the new array configuration when the start button is then pressed. The data on the imported/added disk will not be erased when a new config is set as long as it already was formatted in an unRAID array as either a data or cache disk.
March 21, 201313 yr Author Be very careful when adding an additional drive to an existing array (when your brother-in-law goes to add the disk to his array.) The display will likely say it will CLEAR any newly added disks, and it will, zeroing all the files you were intending to transfer. After adding the disk to the target array, your BIL must set a new disk configuration before starting the array. That will then immediately invalidate parity on that array and set the array to re-calculate parity with the newly added disk as part of the new array configuration when the start button is then pressed. The data on the imported/added disk will not be erased when a new config is set as long as it already was formatted in an unRAID array as either a data or cache disk. Perfect! Thanks for the info Joe! John
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