February 26, 201412 yr I'm hoping to get clarification on how unRAID would handle "moving" files to a new folder when utilizing user shares. I'm in the process of setting up an unRAID server with 2 disks + parity to store multiple generations of incremental backup files. Each Monday a full backup will be performed followed by 6 daily incremental backups. This chain of backups will be stored in a folder called set0. The following Monday a script running on the computers being backed up will "move" the chain from the previous week to set1. A new full backup will then be created in set0. I intend to utilize user shares with a split level of 2 and a file structure of: Backups/set0 Backups/set1 etc...... According to the documentation provided with the backup software the move is performed by windows relocating the file header to the new folder. So the data does not move on disk. My concern is that by utilizing user shares the files may physically be moved to another disk instead of simply moving to a new folder. Thanks
February 26, 201412 yr Nope. The array won't move anything around. Nothing 'moves'. The 'name' of the folder is changed. Why the split level setting? Do you require each backup set to be complete on one physical disk?
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