October 31, 200817 yr Hey, I am currently running 4.3.2 basic and have the following: parity = 1TB seagate 7200.11 disk1 = 1TB seagate 7200.11 disk2 = 750GB seagate 7200.10 abit ab9 pro celeron 440 2GB ram I want to buy the pro software and setup like this: parity = 1TB seagate 7200.11 disk1 = 1TB seagate 7200.11 disk2 = 1TB seagate 7200.11 disk3 = 1TB seagate 7200.11 disk4 = 750GB seagate 7200.10 cache = 250GB seagate 7200.10 single platter and I want to use shares with the high water level or whatever to automatically spread stuff out over the disks. My current disk1 and disk2 are almost full (about 29Gb and 27GB free respectively) Is there a guide on how I can migrate what I already have into what I want? Any help would be greatly appreciated, I tried to search but I guess I'm not searching for the right things... Thanks.
October 31, 200817 yr Author I am currently running 4.3.2 basic Why aren't you running 4.3.3 ? Ahh, I just have been running this setup without any real issues for a while and hadn't had time to check for an update and play with the server. Last time I updated my usb stick went wonky and I had tons of issues. I will definitely be updating to at least 4.3.3 when I install the new drives.
October 31, 200817 yr There probably hasn't been much written about it, because it is quite straightforward. Your software and setup will look exactly the same, except that limits will be higher and more options will be available, to use when you are ready. Working with User Shares is a little different. One thing that would make it simpler, is to keep everything as it is, instead of moving Disk 2 to Disk 4. User Shares 'hide' which disks are being used. Upgrade (by adding the PRO.KEY to the flash drive and rebooting), enable User Shares, reconfigure your desktop apps to use the User Share paths instead of the direct Disk paths, then add the new disks, and include them in the User Shares. Add the Cache drive at any point, after User Shares are enabled. In general, it is best to make one change at a time, and test it before going on to the next change.
October 31, 200817 yr There probably hasn't been much written about it, because it is quite straightforward. Your software and setup will look exactly the same, except that limits will be higher and more options will be available, to use when you are ready. Working with User Shares is a little different. One thing that would make it simpler, is to keep everything as it is, instead of moving Disk 2 to Disk 4. User Shares 'hide' which disks are being used. Upgrade (by adding the PRO.KEY to the flash drive and rebooting), enable User Shares, reconfigure your desktop apps to use the User Share paths instead of the direct Disk paths, then add the new disks, and include them in the User Shares. Add the Cache drive at any point, after User Shares are enabled. In general, it is best to make one change at a time, and test it before going on to the next change. A user share is automatically created for EVERY top level directory on your existing disks. If you have hundreds of top level directories, each named after a movie, then you will end up with hundreds of user-shares, one per movie. It might even crash your server as each user-share takes up memory and it needs more memory than you have... Before you enable user shares, on each of your disks, make a few "top level" directories and move your content into them For example, on my server, I have top level folders of "Movies", "Pictures", "Mp3", and "data" under then are the various files for my media, etc. Under user-shares I configure the "data" folder as "hidden" so it does not show up on my media players. If your media is spread across all your physical disks, make a similar named folder on each... In other words, a top level folder of disk1/Movies, disk2/Movies, disk3/Movies ... When you enable user-shares, all the contents of all the "Movies" folders will be presented in a user-share named "Movies" Joe L.
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