wisem2540 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I have VMs running, as well as docker with several apps installed. Im hoping there is a way to plug in the new cache, let unraid move the data and remove the old one...I may be asking too much? Is it just as simple as doing a direct file copy from old to new? And is this the time to start using the new filesystem? Link to comment
Ashe Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 I have just done this a few days ago. I stopped docker and my VMS and unassigned my existing cache, assigned the new cache and formatted it. I previously used xfs and am now trying out btrfs on the cache. I then mounted my old cache using the unassigned devices plugin and used midnight commander to copy across the data as it was. It took around 3 hours to copy everything across (circa 360gb) mostly due to the plex library. I turned docker and the VMs back on and everything worked as before. It would be a good idea to upgrade to 6.0.1 beforehand. Link to comment
wisem2540 Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 Ashe, I understand that 6.01 is non-beta. Is there any other specific reason you recommend this? Link to comment
Frank1940 Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Ashe, I understand that 6.01 is non-beta. Is there any other specific reason you recommend this? Important thing to remember is that were a lot of beta releases to get to the stable version of ver6. Most of them were only around for a short period of time. Each beta release had many changes from the previous version and the reason for some of those changes were to correct serious problems. If you have a problem in the future, many people (including myself) are going to be reluctant to help you because they don't want to research all the changes that were made from whatever beta version that you are using to the stable version to see if the issue was actually addressed in the stable release. So you will be sitting there wondering why no one is replying. And upgrading when there is an issue is not ideal from a troubleshooting standpoint. Link to comment
dgaschk Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Since upgrades are free, only the current version is supported. Link to comment
wisem2540 Posted July 17, 2015 Author Share Posted July 17, 2015 I am officially on 6.0.1 now. I have noticed that my CPU usage on my VMs are lower. Probably due to a Qemu update. I will wait a little while before doing the cache swap most likely Link to comment
wisem2540 Posted July 30, 2015 Author Share Posted July 30, 2015 Ashe, I completed the upgrade. Had to order a replacement tray for my norco case to support a 2.5in drive. Wow what a difference. my Win7 VM runs like an actual computer for once...and my dockers are 10 times faster Link to comment
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