I am having an awful time trying to figure out how to rsync my data to the new server, both servers on the same Lan. Old Server is Tower, root, password running ver 5.0 - New Server is Unraid, root, different password running ver 6.1.9. Old server has 5 data drives and new server has 3.

 

I set up the same folders/shares on the new server with the disks I want them to use, and I have copied a couple of the smaller ones already with Windows. I'm pretty certain I want to copy shares rather than copy disks, mainly because it is slightly complicated to copy 5 disks onto 3 of different sizes.

 

One problem is one of the folders is "TV Shows" and doesn't Rsync not work if there is a space in the name? Another problem with moving shares is one of the shares is larger than my new drives, and I read that Rsync writes all the directories first so it will think it has run out of room and stop when the first disk is filled up.

 

The biggest problem is I couldn't get Rsync to do anything until I Telnet'd in with SSH, and then found out ver 5 didn't have that. That's all set now but for what I want to do isn't it better not to use SSH?

 

If someone can help me with the commands step by step to get started I'd appreciate it.

Linux you need to put a "\" before any " " (space) as it thinks it's a different command option. If you have a VM running on the new box it might be easiest to use that for the migration using rsync or robocopy, depending on OS. Might we worth spinning one up to facilitate. Could also mount up the new system user share and use Midnight Commander "mc" in terminal and do a copy that way. User share to user share.

Linux you need to put a "\" before any " " (space) as it thinks it's a different command option.

 

Oh no, I'm much more lost than that. I think my problem "nothing worked until I used SSH" is my major malfunction. I was firing out commands without setting up the servers because I thought that was just something I could do later when I wanted to get more serious about keeping the servers in sync. I just wanted to copy tower/tv shows to unraid/tv shows, not connect to a server in another country with an automatic backup plan. I now know that I can but I just thought copying would be simpler than it has been.

 

If you have a VM running on the new box it might be easiest to use that for the migration using rsync or robocopy, depending on OS. Might we worth spinning one up to facilitate. Could also mount up the new system user share and use Midnight Commander "mc" in terminal and do a copy that way. User share to user share.

 

The hardware is all checking out pretty well but it seems we have an defective operator here. I don't even know what I want to do right now. I guess I will set up Rsync so I can do what I want somehow.

 

 

 

Another approach would be to use Unassigned Devices plugin to setup a remote SMB share to the old server then use mc (Midnight Commander) to copy.

 

I do use rsync to keep some of my shares backed up on my backup server, but when I did the initial copy I had to interrupt it to get it to distribute the files on the disks like I wanted, since it did create all the directories in advance and the drive it was going to put them on wouldn't hold it all. I just ^C and moved some of the empty directories to the drive I wanted them to be filled on and then restarted the rsync