March 29, 200917 yr OK, I am getting ready to purchase a Pro key and have currently two UnRaid Basic boxes running. I want to combine the disks from both in one NAS. Can I just take the disks from one box and install them in the other and start the array. What about shares that have the same name? I have both NAS boxes full of movies with the same directory names. Will the new Pro box just combine them. Sorry if these sound like simple quesitons, but I'm just now buying my first key and don't know the system very well.
March 29, 200917 yr They will automatically be combined. unRAID creates afresh the 'virtual' User Share file system, each time it boots. If User Shares are turned on, it creates a User Share for each unique top level folder it finds (except those beginning with a period), combining the ones with the same name. You will have to rebuild the parity drive though. I imagine you will start with one of your current basic systems, install the drives from the other system, boot and click the Restore button, to reset the configuration, then assign all of the drives (making sure the parity drive is the biggest), and Start the array, which will start a parity sync. All of your current data will be intact. (it's rather late and I'm tired, so I apologize in advance if I missed something)
March 29, 200917 yr Author Thanks! I kinda thought that is what would happen, but wanted an "expert" with UnRaid to assure me. So I install the disks into one of my NAS boxes from the other and boot it. After it boots, assign the disks under the devices tab making sure the largest is the parity drive, which I just bought a 1.5tb for that. Then when it comes up click the restore button and that will resync everything. Then a parity check will start and all my user shares will combine. Sweet! UnRaid is a great product.
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