November 5, 20169 yr Hi guys, I'm trying to get the data off my XFS disks in Windows and could do with some assistance.... So my plan of action was 1. Get a Ubuntu VM up an running in VirtualBox (done) 2. Connect my 3TB disks to the PC using a USB adapter and pass through to Ubuntu (done I think) 3. Copy the files on Ubuntu to the shared folder between the host and VM. So i think the USB drive is being passed through to the VM but it's not auto-mounting in Ubuntu.I'm pretty clueless after that.... Any suggestions? Booting the PC with a Linux USB key is not an option as this PC also runs my CCTV recording software and I don't want that to be down while I transfer 13TB of data.
November 6, 20169 yr Community Expert Is this disk from an unRAID array that you want to keep? If so I don't recommend plugging it into another OS because if anything writes even a bit to it you will invalidate parity. Why not just copy the files over the network from your unRAID?
November 6, 20169 yr Author Is this disk from an unRAID array that you want to keep? If so I don't recommend plugging it into another OS because if anything writes even a bit to it you will invalidate parity. Why not just copy the files over the network from your unRAID? No I don't want to keep the array. Can't copy over the network as I'm migrating the disks to a Windows machine. So copy one over, format it and install in the Windows machine. Then onto the next drive and so on.
November 6, 20169 yr Author Came up with a solution. Booted the unRAID box with a Ubuntu LiveUSB image. That can view all the XFS drives so copying disk by disk over the network. Very slow but will do the job.
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