kl0wn Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Howdy, I'm looking to migrate from Flexraid to u raid. All of my drives are currently populated with data. How would I go about making the move without losing data? Or will I need to offload all data onto other drives before moving over? Thanks! Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 You will need enough blank drive space to empty at least 1 or more drives, the more you can empty at a time the faster the migration. Or, you could restore your data from your backups. If you don't have backups, then perhaps you should leave your flexraid drives intact as your backup, and set up unraid with new disks. Quote Link to comment
kl0wn Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Alright I'll just stay on flexraid. That's way too much money for me to be throwing around ATM. Thanks! Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Alright I'll just stay on flexraid. That's way too much money for me to be throwing around ATM. Thanks! How much money is your data worth? Neither flexraid nor unraid is a backup solution if your data doesn't exist multiple places. I would recommend getting your backup strategy in place before considering a move to unraid. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm in the process of doing just what you are. I've got one empty drive that I've added to an Unraid pool. Then I've used unmenu to mount my Flexraid NTFS disks. That's as far as I've got at the moment, but next step is SSH and run mc, copy data from 1st flexraid disk, then add that disk to the Unraid pool, copy data from 2nd flexraid disk and so on. Quote Link to comment
kl0wn Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Thats a great idea! I'll have to try that myself. Thanks bud Quote Link to comment
dalben Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm in the process of doing just what you are. I've got one empty drive that I've added to an Unraid pool. Then I've used unmenu to mount my Flexraid NTFS disks. That's as far as I've got at the moment, but next step is SSH and run mc, copy data from 1st flexraid disk, then add that disk to the Unraid pool, copy data from 2nd flexraid disk and so on. Rsync would be a better way to migrate the data from one drive to another. Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Thats a great idea! I'll have to try that myself. Thanks bud No problem mate, just remember that you'll have no parity protection until all your data has been copied across and you've added a parity drive and done your first parity check. I've mounted and shared all my NTFS drives using unmenu and then added each disk as a source in Kodi so I can still watch my media during the migration. Seems to be working pretty well and the wife hasn't noticed any difference which is a good sign! Quote Link to comment
CHBMB Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 I'm in the process of doing just what you are. I've got one empty drive that I've added to an Unraid pool. Then I've used unmenu to mount my Flexraid NTFS disks. That's as far as I've got at the moment, but next step is SSH and run mc, copy data from 1st flexraid disk, then add that disk to the Unraid pool, copy data from 2nd flexraid disk and so on. Rsync would be a better way to migrate the data from one drive to another. I did look at rsync but I wasn't too sure what advantage it offered over mc. Perhaps I'll have another look.. Quote Link to comment
kl0wn Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yeah figured as much. I'm just stoked I can do it one drive at a time. This means I'll only need to snag me another 4tb to get the migration going. Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Yeah figured as much. I'm just stoked I can do it one drive at a time. This means I'll only need to snag me another 4tb to get the migration going. why not use the parity drive first, remove the parity file first and then copy legit files over to it. Flex raid still has a dedicated parity drive, right? Quote Link to comment
kl0wn Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Thats an even better idea. Sadly my creative juices haven't been flowing. Not sure why I didn't think of that before. Quote Link to comment
djvj Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I'm curious how you are liking unraid better since you moved? I'm contemplating transitioning as well because I'm tired of Flex and every error is an unhandled exception. Not to mention only one dev who doesn't like to handle any errors properly in the log to ease troubleshooting for users. With 40TB of data over 20 or so drives it would take awhile...so don't want to jump the gun. Quote Link to comment
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