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Moving media library to bigger HDD (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[SOLVED] 12 TB disk finally arrived, I used clonezilla. Using advanced settings and -k1 (everything else left as default) made exact disk with more storage. I just replaced disks, powered on and everything is up and running! Ty all ❤️

Hello selfhosters,

I'm running home server DIY PC with *arr stack in docker containers and its working surprisingly well. The problem I have is not enough storage for my needs so I ordered a new HDD.

At the moment I have OS (Debian) and some (config) volumes on one SSD while media library is on another SSD. I'd like to move only media library from old to a new HDD and stop using the old one.

What is the best way to move all files (including hard links?) to a new drive? Can I just copy files with same folder structure and then modify my docker-compose.yaml to point to a new HDD? Is backup and restore of *arr apps necessary? Is there any way to grab all torrent files from qbittorrent (or another way of backup?

Folder structure I have now:

System SSD:

SSD1/config/sonarr
SSD1/config/radarr
SSD1/config/qbittorrent

Data SSD:

SSD2/data/media/tv
SSD2/data/media/movies
SSD2/data/torrent/tv
SSD2/data/torrent/movies

THX!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

rsync -avxH will copy the files between drives.

You can simply mount the new drive in the same place as the old one after the copy, that way you don't have to change any paths.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ill look into rsync, thx.

About not changing paths, does it apply to my case? This is how I defined docker volumes:

    volumes:
      - /home/config/radarr:/config
      - /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4cfcd2b7-507b-4e3e-abd3-7b9c87d8ce64/data2000/data:/data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well considering you made the mount point so specific to the drive you might as well change it. 😊 In the future consider something named after the directory's function rather than physical support, such as /srv/docker/radarr/data. That way you can swap drives at /srv/docker and keep everything the same.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I felt like it wasnt the best. I did that path in OMV following some guide a while ago.

Thx!