SOLVED: Can't find where it's copied my files to!
Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2018 12:00 pm
Hi,
My Amahi setup has an internal HDD and two external USB HDDs. I recently started hearing an ominous clicking noise from one of the externals so invested in a 4TB external to serve as a local backup for all the existing HDDs. I already have cloud backup for the very important stuff, but a local backup seems/feels like a nice plan.
I plugged the new HDD in and used the Amahi Disk Wizard application. This seemed to go fine and I was able to format and then create a shared folder on the new drive.
Using a terminal via WinSCP I set up the initial backup of the clicking drive using something along the lines of -
rsync -avz /var/hda/files/drives/media/ /var/hda/files/drives/backup/media/
Everything seemed to be going fine until an error popped up in the console saying that it had run out of disk space. This struck me as slightly odd seeing as it was backing up a partially filled 2TB drive to an empty 4TB one.
Looking at the drives using the Amahi dashboard it wasn't actually showing the new drive at all but was showing the internal to have completely filled up. The partition was showing for the new drive but the actual drive wasn't showing at all. I rebooted the server and could now see the new drive.
My problem is that the files must have copied from the clicking external drive to the internal drive as that has completely filled up, but I cant seem to locate them to remove them. They're not in /var/hda/files/drives/backup as that is showing as being empty.
This is clearly a Linux newbie issue and I'm sure there's a straight forward and obvious solution. It's just the it isn't straight forward and obvious to me right now. I did a file search using WinSCP for one of the files that was definitely copied but it didn't locate it on the internal drive. Any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated!
My Amahi setup has an internal HDD and two external USB HDDs. I recently started hearing an ominous clicking noise from one of the externals so invested in a 4TB external to serve as a local backup for all the existing HDDs. I already have cloud backup for the very important stuff, but a local backup seems/feels like a nice plan.
I plugged the new HDD in and used the Amahi Disk Wizard application. This seemed to go fine and I was able to format and then create a shared folder on the new drive.
Using a terminal via WinSCP I set up the initial backup of the clicking drive using something along the lines of -
rsync -avz /var/hda/files/drives/media/ /var/hda/files/drives/backup/media/
Everything seemed to be going fine until an error popped up in the console saying that it had run out of disk space. This struck me as slightly odd seeing as it was backing up a partially filled 2TB drive to an empty 4TB one.
Looking at the drives using the Amahi dashboard it wasn't actually showing the new drive at all but was showing the internal to have completely filled up. The partition was showing for the new drive but the actual drive wasn't showing at all. I rebooted the server and could now see the new drive.
My problem is that the files must have copied from the clicking external drive to the internal drive as that has completely filled up, but I cant seem to locate them to remove them. They're not in /var/hda/files/drives/backup as that is showing as being empty.
This is clearly a Linux newbie issue and I'm sure there's a straight forward and obvious solution. It's just the it isn't straight forward and obvious to me right now. I did a file search using WinSCP for one of the files that was definitely copied but it didn't locate it on the internal drive. Any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated!