Hi All

 

I have managed to get my new Unraid unit (HP-Unraid/192.168.1.100) up and running and am trying to move 8Tb from the old box to the new. SO... I thought rather than use Windows explorer I would try and use Rsync for speed. The old unit (Unraid-1/192.168.1.101) is running v4.7 and I have 5.05 on the new one.

 

I have followed various really good howto's on setting up Rsync on the new box and am confident I have it up and running.

 

I would like to transfer data from shares rather than disk mounts, so I have played with the command line and keep failing. The share name is "media" on both machines... so I have tried several variations;

 

Attempt 1:

rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/media/ rsync://192.168.1.100/mnt/media

 

reports;

sending incremental file list

rsync: change_dir "/mnt/media" failed: No such file or directory (2)

ERROR: module is read only

rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(869) [Receiver=3.0.7]

rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104)

rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(794) [sender=3.0.2]

 

 

 

Attempt 2:

rsync -av --stats --progress /media/ rsync://192.168.1.100/media

 

reports;

@ERROR: Unknown module 'media'

rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1495) [sender=3.0.2]

 

 

 

Attempt 3:

rsync -av --stats --progress /mnt/user/media/ rsync://192.168.1.100/mnt/user/media

 

reports;

sending incremental file list

rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Connection reset by peer (104)

ERROR: module is read only

rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(869) [Receiver=3.0.7]

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (5 bytes received so far) [sender]

rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [sender=3.0.2]

 

 

Having spent 2 days on this, I am now wishing I had just let the Windows samba based copy run as it would be done by now ;-)

 

But any pointers greatly received.

I'd run this command on your old server. All user shares are under the "user" folder.  So its /mnt/user/media instead of /mnt/media

 

/usr/bin/rsync -avzh /mnt/user/media [email protected]:/mnt/user/media

 

The -v is for verbose so it will output what its currently moving. -a is for archive keeps permissions/stuff the same.  -h is for human readable for file sizes. -z is to compress while transferring. 

 

Really, I would run this in screen so if you disconnect your telnet session it still runs. - Download link. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=15707.0

Thanks smdion

 

I did manage to get it working... although I have noticed on the new server, if I try to access "media" it says that I do not have permission. However I noticed in 5.0.5 there is a tick box in Utils -> Upgrade Utilities -> New Permissions, which says...

 

This is a one-time action to be taken after upgrading from a pre-5.0 unRAID server release to version 5.0. It is also useful for restoring default ownership/permissions on files and directories when transitioning back from Active Directory to non-Active Directory integration.

 

This utility starts a background process that goes to each of your data disks and cache disk and changes file and directory ownership to nobody/users (i.e., uid/gid to 99/100), and sets permissions as follows:

 

For directories:

  drwxrwxrwx

 

For read/write files:

  -rw-rw-rw-

 

For readonly files:

  -r--r--r--

 

Clicking Start will open another window and start the background process. Closing the window before completion will terminate the background process. This process can take a long time if you have many files.

 

So... I was planning on running this once the data has copied as I am nearly 2Tb into the move?

 

Do you know if this is the correct way to get permission again, or should I start the transfer afresh using the -a flag?

 

Thanks

Thanks smdion

 

I did manage to get it working... although I have noticed on the new server, if I try to access "media" it says that I do not have permission. However I noticed in 5.0.5 there is a tick box in Utils -> Upgrade Utilities -> New Permissions, which says...

 

This is a one-time action to be taken after upgrading from a pre-5.0 unRAID server release to version 5.0. It is also useful for restoring default ownership/permissions on files and directories when transitioning back from Active Directory to non-Active Directory integration.

 

This utility starts a background process that goes to each of your data disks and cache disk and changes file and directory ownership to nobody/users (i.e., uid/gid to 99/100), and sets permissions as follows:

 

For directories:

  drwxrwxrwx

 

For read/write files:

  -rw-rw-rw-

 

For readonly files:

  -r--r--r--

 

Clicking Start will open another window and start the background process. Closing the window before completion will terminate the background process. This process can take a long time if you have many files.

 

So... I was planning on running this once the data has copied as I am nearly 2Tb into the move?

 

Do you know if this is the correct way to get permission again, or should I start the transfer afresh using the -a flag?

 

Thanks

 

That is what I would do, but I would run it from command line with screen "newperms".  I just don't like the chance of my session being interrupted.

Hello,

I am in the middle of something similar,

I have older unraid server name "Tower", running on version 4.5.6. USB stick from Lime.

I just got finished building my new system with all 4TB drives, running version 5.0.5 USB stick from Lime.

server name is "Tower" also, wondering is there any problem of changing the server name because of network naming?

I see hostname commands, but is there any other place that needs to be changed?

will it cause any problems with the webgui ?

Hello,

I am in the middle of something similar,

I have older unraid server name "Tower", running on version 4.5.6. USB stick from Lime.

I just got finished building my new system with all 4TB drives, running version 5.0.5 USB stick from Lime.

server name is "Tower" also, wondering is there any problem of changing the server name because of network naming?

I see hostname commands, but is there any other place that needs to be changed?

will it cause any problems with the webgui ?

I don't know anything about 4.5.6, but you can set the name in 5.0.5 directly in the webGUI on the Settings Tab - Identification. So just set the name of the new server to something other than tower.