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[BlueJacket1992]

Yes, Greyhole manages all shares and all my files are in those shares.

I'll reinstall and disconnect shared drives. Would I then simply physically reconnect them, mount the drives, and have greyhole connect and configure the pool again? This is new territory for me...remounting/reconfiguring Greyhole, that is. A Wiki article might be in the making!

[bigfoot65]

Yes, reinstall but ensure you physically disconnect the Greyhole drives. The wiki article already exists, so once everything is up and running you can follow the reconnect existing Greyhole storage pool guidance.

The HDA OS Migration Guide might be useful as well. It's designed for the reinstalling of Amahi 7 and will help you capture settings in your current install that will need to be replicated for the new one.

It would be wonderful if you could test the adding hard drives 101 wiki guidance for adding your drives as well.

I am trying to eliminate some of the duplication in the wiki for adding drives and make it simpler for folks who are new to Linux. Feedback is welcome.

[BlueJacket1992]

BigFoot65,

I will be reinstalling late tonight and tomorrow morning. I will follow the Wiki step-by-step to ensure its definitude. Thanks for the heads-up!

More to come...

[bigfoot65]

Sounds good. Good luck and hope it all works out.

We will be waiting to hear of your progress.

[BlueJacket1992]

Okay, it's quite possible this forum question has outlived it's original scope. Sorry!

And for posterity's sake, I'm going to log the wiki docs I used and what I had to do to rebuild our Amahi 7 Server:

1. Using the HDA OS Migration Guide I readied my server and its Greyhole disks.
2. I disconnected all my Greyhole-managed "data" harddrives when I shutdown the server and slipped the Amahi 7 DVD in my optical drive.
3. Using the Amahi Installation Instructions I downloaded and installed the latest version of Amahi 7 on F19. I used the directions that gave exacting guidance on the size of the SWAP, BOOT, and ROOT directories. Installation of Amahi 7 on my OS drive was flawless and went without a hitch.
4. After the final restart of the Amahi installation I signed into the Amahi Dashboard to configure my Network settings.
5. Using the Amahi Wiki article Adding Hard Drives 101, I especially appreciated the steps that guided me to gather the before-and-after /dev/disk/by-id and "Compare the difference between before.txt and after.txt to determine the new hard drive(s) device name." It's output identified EXACTLY which disks to focus on without the risk of affecting the swap, boot, or root partitions. KUDOS!
6. Then, using the above Amahi Wiki article and another article: Reconnect Existing Greyhole Storage Pool I mounting the Greyhole-managed drives and appended the UUIDs to /etc/fstab, I restarted my Amahi 7 server. Again, Not a single issue.
7. After signing-in to my Amahi 7 Dashboard, I recreated my shares. I did perform some tweaking on the smb.conf file to ensure specific access rights but more than 95% of the smb.conf file was properly created/appended simply by adding the shares and selecting the access rights of my users.
8. Then I installed the Greyhole App in the Setup - Apps - Available page.
9. In the Drive Pooling - Partitions section of the Amahi 7 Dashboard, I selected the partitions I wanted Greyhole to manage, clicking on the Drive Pooling - Shares page, I then selected which shares I wanted in the pool and how many duplicates I desired to maintain.

Of course, it's probably good to mention that there are obviously more than 9 steps to rebuild a server - ANY server - but I have to give kudos to the Amahi Team for the impeccable work they've done to document and publish such exacting guidance.

Now that my server is back online, I'm going to dive into learning about the Greyhole LZ...the area of that software I didn't first acknowledge and give proper attention to this CRITICAL part of Greyhole!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for your help!

[bigfoot65]

That is great news! Appreciate the honest feedback.

I am especially excited that the HDA OS Migration Guide and Adding Hard Drives 101 were particularly helpful for you. I spent many hours documenting and testing this guidance to make it simple and effective.

I do have one comment though about your steps. Specifically the one modifying smb.conf.

I did perform some tweaking on the smb.conf file to ensure specific access rights but more than 95% of the smb.conf file was properly created/appended simply by adding the shares and selecting the access rights of my users.

Any changes you manually make in the configuration file will be overwritten at some point. Amahi generates that file based on the Dashboard settings and some hard coded settings.

If you want to make changes, most can be added in the Shares Extra Parameters section for each share. If you provide what you changed, I can tell you for sure if these will work in this section.

Thanks again for the feedback!