December 1, 20169 yr Currently I have a unRAID server with 3 1TB drives. I am switching to a new server with one 3TB drive that will still be running unRAID. All of the data can fit on one of the 1TB drives, what would be the best way for me to get the data to the new drive? Would it be possible to move it all to a 1TB drive, then use a Windows PC to copy the data to the new drive?
December 1, 20169 yr The easiest and fastest way to do it would be to either put the new disk in the old server or the old disks in the new server and do a drive to drive copy. There are several different ways to do this, including having all the drives in the same array or using the Unassigned Devices plugin. Is this an option or do you need to go the Windows route? By the way, I hope your new server will actually have two drives - one data, and one parity .
December 1, 20169 yr Author I will need to look at the connections on the old server but I am not entirely sure there is enough room to connect the new drive. The Windows route was just wondering if I could move everything to one drive and then connect that to a Windows PC and copy the files over. And they both have a additional parity drive I just wasn't counting it.
December 1, 20169 yr If you can bring both servers up at the same time then you could just go unRAID to unRAID. If you need to go the Windows route then the challenge is mounting a unix drive under Windows. Are you running Reiserfs drives or XFS? Disk Internals has a utility for mounting a Reiserfs drive under Windows but I found it somewhat better suited to recovering selective files than the whole drive - I only used it a little, though. XFS is more complicated. I thought I heard about a new utility the other day that would act like Disk Internals, but the standard approach is to bring up an Ubuntu VM on Windows. Another option is this - copy all the files on the 1TB drives to a single drive since you can do that. Downsize the array and remove an empty 1TB drive. Then put that in the Windows box as NTFS and copy everything down from the old server and back up to the new server.
December 1, 20169 yr Personally if I couldn't drop in the drive I would just use TeraCopy via Windows and copy from one server to another. It would take longer, but it keeps it super simple. No command lines, no Mounting and honestly its really simple. You could use the checksum as well to have it verify every transfer. http://www.codesector.com/downloads
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