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Building new box want to reuse greypool drives.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 3:13 pm
by mjdano
Ok so I'm going to rebuild my Amahi server and have a couple of questions. I did some searches and couldn't really find what I was looking for. I want to rebuild the server with a newer mobo, processor & memory but using the same drives for the storage/greypool. So my question is there any good direction on how to do this without losing all of the data? I realize that I will need to reload the OS/Amahi on the new setup, but will I have to copy all of the data off of the drives & then put it back? I could find anything that said about moving greypool dives to another setup if they will retain the data. I can backup all the data but was looking at trying to keep the downtime to a minimum. Any ideas or places to look or ideas to search on to help with this would be great. Thanks for any help.

Re: Building new box want to reuse greypool drives.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:45 pm
by sgtfoo
http://forums.amahi.org/search.php?keyw ... mit=Search

I've answered at least 3 other threads about the same topic and have done this same process myself.

You can pretty much just re-insert all the drives in the same sequence of SATA plugs and have greyhole do a long

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greyhole -fo greyhole -l
and things should be just fine.. Search is your friend

Re: Building new box want to reuse greypool drives.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:06 pm
by bigfoot65
Maybe we need to add things like this to the wiki. Do you have the time? It would greatly benefit the Amahi community.

I would like to see a kind of FAQ developed there. Finding things in the forum is so difficult in my opinion.

Re: Building new box want to reuse greypool drives.

Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:56 pm
by sgtfoo