clevoir Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I, and I'm sure a great many users, am now faced with the decision to change the file system of my existing array moving foward, and I also understand that the default file system for V6 is now XFS too For use by perhaps less technical users, is there a (foolproof ) guide or proceedure on how we can migrate the array / disk file system? It would be fantastic if there was an option in the GUI to allow migration to new file systems without having to use Linux commands, which some of us are not familar with. I myself have over 20TB which I want to move to XFS, athed don't fancy messing it up, with having to reload all my files from scratch!!! Quote Link to comment
mikejp Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 For use by perhaps less technical users, is there a (foolproof ) guide or proceedure on how we can migrate the array / disk file system? This worked for me... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35544.msg331110#msg331110 Quote Link to comment
clevoir Posted November 10, 2014 Author Share Posted November 10, 2014 Thanks but I need something far more basic, hopefully automated without the use of Linux I assume that I need to purchase one more disk to allow copying between discs? What happens if I have different hard disk capacities? Say I have a 1TB disk (Disk1), I copy it's contents onto say a 4TB new hard disk, which I assume becomes the new disk1? I am then only left with a 1TB hard disk to perform the same operation with the next disk. What happens if the next disk to copy is 2TB, my new 1TB disk is going to be too small??? Quote Link to comment
Squid Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Use Windows Explorer to do it copy from Disk1 to DiskX... Just make sure you use disk shares and not the user shares. Not the fastest way of doing it, but certainly the easiest Quote Link to comment
johnodon Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 For use by perhaps less technical users, is there a (foolproof ) guide or proceedure on how we can migrate the array / disk file system? This worked for me... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35544.msg331110#msg331110 That rsync command scares me a bit...particularly the argument that deletes the source files. God forbid that the target drive takes a dump (a hard failure) anytime during the process. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I used rsync (drive to drive, not user shares) WITHOUT the file deletion. It obviously will delete the files when you re-format the drive. Quote Link to comment
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