October 20, 201510 yr Hello, Lost a drive last week and after recovering the data I bought some 4TB drives to replace my older 2TB drives. After reading the post about going from RFS to XFS I am wondering if the way I move data from drive to drive is not the best way to do it. With the array on and both drives are on the same share. I move the data from drive to drive (example: disk1 to disk2) with windows explorer or mc, simple and easy. Are there any issue doing that? If so what is the best way to move data on the same share to different drives?
October 20, 201510 yr Hello, Lost a drive last week and after recovering the data I bought some 4TB drives to replace my older 2TB drives. After reading the post about going from RFS to XFS I am wondering if the way I move data from drive to drive is not the best way to do it. With the array on and both drives are on the same share. I move the data from drive to drive (example: disk1 to disk2) with windows explorer or mc, simple and easy. Are there any issue doing that? If so what is the best way to move data on the same share to different drives? I would do disk1 to disk2 in mc as you describe. I would avoid explorer. If fact, I would open a "screen" session on your terminal and then run mc and the copy inside that... this way if putty gets disconnected, the process keeps going on.
October 21, 201510 yr Author Thanks just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing something that might mess up the data.
October 21, 201510 yr Midnight Commander or Rsync are prob the best options. You could also just use move (MV) in command line... Keep in mind you alwasy want to move disk to disk or share to share and NEVER cross the wires and move share to disk or disk to share. Transfering from Share to Disk or Disk to Share makes it extremely likely that you'll lose data.
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