Beginner - WHS 2011 to Amahi migration

[toy4x4]

Need a little advice and clarification on a Amahi configuration so I can plan my migration from WHS 2011 to Amahi.

I have one server right now running WHS 2011 and I am tired of issues I have with my hard drives related to drivers and just poor MS support. I tried all the tricks to keep them from spinning down and I finally give up. This still may happen in Fedora, but I expect it to handle the scenario better than WHS. Let's not focus on that though

I have my current server running the following drives:
2x640gb Raid 1 for boot
4x1tb Raid 0 for data
2x2tb for backup
(offsite Amazon S3 for critical files like pictures)

Basically what I am doing is removing the two 2tb drives and moved them over to another server I have. I installed Amahi a couple ways. First was with just both of the 2tb drives hooked up at the same time and it was fairly easy. I had a 50gb boot partition and then a pool of ~3.7tb. Then as I thought about how to get data over and then bring the other 1tb drives over into Amahi, I re-installed with one 2tb drive and then followed the detailed instructions for adding in the other drive from the below link:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding_ ... o_your_HDA

It worked fine and I basically ended up with a 50gb partition, 1.7tb(/home) partition and 1.8tb(/var/hda/files) partition on the second drive. I used the advanced settings in the HDA dashboard and added both the 1.7tb and 1.8tb to the Greyhole storage pool.

The next step would be to copy over all the data and then move the 1tb drives over. I would add them the same way as the above with the exception of the "mv /var/hda/files/*" step to move the shares over to the new hard drives.

So I guess what I am really thinking is if this is how I want to do it for consistency:

• 1. Install Amahi on one of the 2tb hard drives.
  2. Add the second 2tb hard drive and follow the instructions in the link above to add it. However, I don't think I need to move the shares to the new one. Basically let it mount as /var/hda/files/drive1.
  3. Add the 1.7tb and 1.8tb partitions into the Greyhole storage pool in the HDA dashboard
  4. Copy all data from WHS to the appropriate shares
  5. Put the four 1tb drives in the Amahi server and follow the "Add a second drive" instructions and let them mount as drive2, drive3, etc like I did when adding 2tb drive above.
  6. Go into the Amahi dashboard and add the new ones to the Greyhole storage pool
  7. Go adjust the shares for those I want added redundancy on.
  8. Figure out how to do Amazon S3 for critical offsite backup...

Just brainstorming before I begin. Any input is appreciated.

[sgtfoo]

there's been a lot of threads about adding data from old servers.
If you go from 1 machine to another machine, it might be best to transfer everything manually from mounted drives on a client machine or mounted local shares on the HDA itself. THis ensures Samba and Greyhole both track all the files and where they're sitting, allowing for metadata to be created.

as for drive layouts.. I answered this recently with a pretty simplified layout that after several HDA builds, I find is very easy to manage.. http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... elp#p20409

[toy4x4]

Thanks for the reply.

I do plan to mount the HDA shares on the WHS and copy the data over.

I'll read the thread on the layout! Thanks!