[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!

  • rambos@lemm.eeOP
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    1 year ago

    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
    
    • lemmyvore@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

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

        Thx!