Mover questions

[starbetrayer]

Hello guys,

 

I am pretty new to Unraid and I do not understand how the mover works.

I just put two hard drives for cache.

Could someone explain to me what are the requirements for the mover to work ?

I currently only have enabled disk shares and not user shares.

Do I need to enable user shares for the mover to work ?

I would like to use the mover and have it then copied the files to a particular disk. Is this possible ?

 

[Squid]

User shares (and copying the file(s) to the user share) are a requirement for mover / the cache drive to operate as a cache drive.  You can always arrange your particular shares so that they are confined to a particular drive.

[starbetrayer]

3 minutes ago, Squid said:

User shares (and copying the file(s) to the user share) are a requirement for mover / the cache drive to operate as a cache drive.  You can always arrange your particular shares so that they are confined to a particular drive.

 

@Squid

 

Thank you for your answer.

 

So from where I am now, it is requiring an additional folder in the disk named disk1, disk2, etc ?

 

Would it be the way you would do it ?

 

Do you have any advices ?

[starbetrayer]

6 minutes ago, Squid said:

User shares (and copying the file(s) to the user share) are a requirement for mover / the cache drive to operate as a cache drive.  You can always arrange your particular shares so that they are confined to a particular drive.

 

@Squid Are the writing speeds to the array faster when using a cache drives ?

What are the typical write speeds obtained ?

[trurl]

1 hour ago, starbetrayer said:

I currently only have enabled disk shares and not user shares.

Only user shares are cached. Mover and caching have no meaning when you are working directly with the disks.

 

I actually recommend that you disable disk shares and only enable user shares.

 

You create user shares in the webUI and each user share has a number of settings you can make to control whether and how they cache, which disks they use, and other things. There is help in the webUI that can probably answer some of your questions.

 

Also, this user share overview from the wiki might give you a good start and allow you to ask better questions:

 

https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Overview#User_Shares

[starbetrayer]

On 11/24/2018 at 5:15 PM, trurl said:

Only user shares are cached. Mover and caching have no meaning when you are working directly with the disks.

 

I actually recommend that you disable disk shares and only enable user shares.

 

You create user shares in the webUI and each user share has a number of settings you can make to control whether and how they cache, which disks they use, and other things. There is help in the webUI that can probably answer some of your questions.

 

Also, this user share overview from the wiki might give you a good start and allow you to ask better questions:

 

https://wiki.unraid.net/UnRAID_6/Overview#User_Shares

@trurl

 

Thank you for the explanation.

I will do that, and report back.

I will probably have more questions as I go through.