User Shares - Move Files to assigned disks

[Trynn]

Hey,

i made the mistake to config my user shares after data is alread on the shares.

Now i read this guide here:

https://lime-technology.com/setting-up-your-file-structure-and-user-shares-on-unraid/

 

What is the best way to move existing files over to assigned disks?

For example,

I have

 

/movies/ on Disk1/2/3/4.

No i set /movies/ to only use Disk1. How to move subfolders of 2/3/4 to disk1?

 

Seems to me like a pretty obvious normal task, but was not able figure out the easiest way to accomplish that.

Thanks in advance.

[itimpi]

Hey,

i made the mistake to config my user shares after data is alread on the shares.

Now i read this guide here:

https://lime-technology.com/setting-up-your-file-structure-and-user-shares-on-unraid/

 

What is the best way to move existing files over to assigned disks?

For example,

I have

 

/movies/ on Disk1/2/3/4.

No i set /movies/ to only use Disk1. How to move subfolders of 2/3/4 to disk1?

 

Seems to me like a pretty obvious normal task, but was not able figure out the easiest way to accomplish that.

Thanks in advance.

This is probably not a normal task as most people set up the shares before copying the data to the disks.

 

Having said that there are several ways to do this, but the easiest is probably to install the unBalance plugin.  Another way is to run the 'mc' (Midnight Commander) commander from a console/telnet session.

[nealbscott]

Do you have a monitor and keyboard on that unraid server?  Logon locally to that server with it.

 

At the prompt, type:

mc

 

This will start Midnight Commander, which is a nice text based gui which will allow you to easily move files from disk to disk.

[trurl]

Be sure to copy disk to disk to avoid User Share Copy Bug.

 

[nealbscott]

Yup what trurl said!!!  If you copy from a disk share to a user share...  the user share might just decide to write the file back to that same exact disk you are coping from.  bad bad news...

[Trynn]

Used mc on the machine. Worked out great. Thanks.

 

Thanks trurl for the important note

[Trynn]

One additional Question,

when i rebuild a disk (just recently replaced one) my system is working with 140-150mb/s speed.

 

When i move files with MC between disks, i merely get 30-40mb/s overall. But if i monitor it, i can see that sometimes it uses 80mb/s++, but only for a short period.

Any idea where my bottleneck could be?

 

MSI C236M Workstation (7972-018R)

Intel Core i3-6100

8GB DDR4 2133 ECC

1 Samsung 840 Pro Cachedrive

5 WD Red 3TB

[gubbgnutten]

One additional Question,

when i rebuild a disk (just recently replaced one) my system is working with 140-150mb/s speed.

 

When i move files with MC between disks, i merely get 30-40mb/s overall. But if i monitor it, i can see that sometimes it uses 80mb/s++, but only for a short period.

Any idea where my bottleneck could be?

 

Parity updates?

 

When rebuilding a disk you are reading from all disks except the one being rebuilt, and that one is only written to. Not only that - everything is read/written sequentially, best case scenario for hard drives.

 

When moving files between disks parity needs to be updated, which means both reading and writing. Hard drives do not excel at this. Spikes are probably due to caching.

 

Turbo/reconstruct write might be of interest, don't have a forum link ready at the moment, but I know there is something nice written somewhere.

[trurl]

Turbo/reconstruct write might be of interest, don't have a forum link ready at the moment, but I know there is something nice written somewhere.

Turbo write

[gubbgnutten]

Turbo/reconstruct write might be of interest, don't have a forum link ready at the moment, but I know there is something nice written somewhere.

Turbo write

 

Ah, the Lounge, now I remember! Thanks!

[Trynn]

Thanks guys