Hey Guys

 

What's the right way to do this?  I want to isolate my ripped movies, currently spread across all 4 data disks of my array to just disks 3 and 4.

 

Thanks for any tips!

 

-Jim

You will have to copy disk to disk. Removing a disk from the share config will not do what you want.

Just do it through the ui, change the setting there. You will need to rebalance the files yourself though, mv or rsync them by using the disk shares (/mnt/disk#) and not the user shares (/mnt/user)

 

There's no technical reason to move them, but if that's what you want to do, be sure you do the moves using the disk references -- NOT the user shares.    There's a bug when copying TO a user share from files on the server that can result in complete loss of the data.

 

In other words, do this:

 

(1)  Change the Includes setting for your share so that only disks 3 and 4 are included in the share.

 

(2)  Now you can move the files from the other disks to the share folders on disks 3 and 4, but do this via disk references.  i.e., if you now have a "Rips" folder on disks 1,2,3, and 4, then do something like this:

 

Move \\Tower\Disk1\Rips  \\Tower\Disk3\Rips

and

Move \\Tower\Disk2\Rips  \\Tower\Disk4\Rips

 

If there's not enough space on disk3 or 4 to hold all of the files these would move, then do it in smaller "chunks" and move the movies to exactly where you want.

 

What you do NOT want to do is this: 

Move \\Tower\Disk1\Rips  \\Tower\Rips    ==>  Copying directly to the user share like this will result in major data loss (potentially ALL of the files associated with the move or copy)

 

 

 

Thanks guys!!

 

So, I'll do disk to disk copying after changing the included disks for the share to only be 3 and 4.  BUT, how will the array "know" that they are in the share?  Just because they are on the disk?

 

-Jim

A user share simply concatenates all of the files in top-level folders by that name on all of your disks.

 

Even if you change the share to only "Include" disks3 and 4, you'll still see all of the files on your other disks (disk1 and disk2 in this case) in the share, since they're in a folder with the same name.    The "Includes" only impacts where the system will WRITE new data.

 

Any data you write to a top-level folder on ANY disk with the same name as the share will be included in the data you'll see when you access the share.

 

A user share simply concatenates all of the files in top-level folders by that name on all of your disks.

 

Even if you change the share to only "Include" disks3 and 4, you'll still see all of the files on your other disks (disk1 and disk2 in this case) in the share, since they're in a folder with the same name.    The "Includes" only impacts where the system will WRITE new data.

 

Any data you write to a top-level folder on ANY disk with the same name as the share will be included in the data you'll see when you access the share.

 

Got it.  Just doing a regular file "move" between disks within MC should be ok, then?

 

-Jim

Yes, that's fine.