moving from AMAHI6 to AMAHI7

[bigfoot65]

Thanks! I am still testing Amahi 7 in a VM. I managed to get a desktop installed with it, but sure seems slow. It makes app testing easier for me as I don't want to shut down my Ubuntu HDA until Amahi 7 is solid.

[kikkegek]

okay guys, here goes.

on my HDA1 the fstab and greyhole.conf look like this

/etc/fstab

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sun Jul 31 16:09:11 2011
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg_amahi-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=2f6fc156-23d4-4d4c-884e-2c21c7e71aed /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_amahi-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=485db5c1-4dce-4b5d-b270-60b05a87659d /var/hda/files ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg_amahi-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
UUID=667bd417-70f4-4524-ab03-501113edf499 /var/hda/files/drives/drive1 ext4 defaults 1 2

/etc/greyhole.conf

# This file is automatically generated by Amahi on Sun Dec 30 23:37:11 +0100 2012
# Any manual changes WILL BE OVERWRITTEN!
# Set the defaults (carefully) in /var/hda/platform/html/config/greyhole.yml
db_engine = mysql
db_host = localhost
db_user = greyhole
db_pass = greyhole
db_name = greyhole
balance_modified_files = false
email_to = root
greyhole_log_file = /var/log/greyhole.log
log_level = DEBUG
log_memory_usage = false
dir_selection_algorithm = most_available_space
df_cache_time = 15
delete_moves_to_attic = true
# sticky_files and stick_into options are nested - see http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Greyhol ... ed_options
sticky_files = Music/
# add any group of other settings
# here in multiple lines
storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/drives/drive1/gh, min_free: 10gb
storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/gh, min_free: 10gb
num_copies[Pictures] = 2
num_copies[Movies] = 1
num_copies[Music] = 1
num_copies[Docs] = 1
num_copies[Software] = 1
num_copies[Downloads] = 1
num_copies[Torrents] = 1
num_copies[Greyhole Trash] = 1
num_copies[Newsgroups] = 1

so do I just copy the two bold lines from the old fstab to the new fstab to get the greyholepool working on the new HDA?

[bigfoot65]

In the past I had to run hda-diskmount to get the correct UUID.

As for your mounting, seems redundant to have shares and Greyhole all on one drive. I would leave the shares on OS drive if there is room, then make the second drive pure Greyhole.

[kikkegek]

In the past I had to run hda-diskmount to get the correct UUID.

As for your mounting, seems redundant to have shares and Greyhole all on one drive. I would leave the shares on OS drive if there is room, then make the second drive pure Greyhole.

I dont understand what you mean by "redundant to have shares and Greyhole all on one drive"?

I currently have this:
WDC drive: OS partitions (not on greyhole) and one partition for storage part of the greyhole pool
Samsung drive: just one storage partition and part of the greyhole pool

I want to move to
SSD: for OS partitions
WDC: just one storage partition and part of the greyhole pool
Samsung: just one partition and part of the greyhole pool

I have only the "pictures share" set to 2 copies (because of two drives) so if I loose one hof the two drives I can just swap in a new one and be sure I always keep my pictures. the rest are movies and tv series. no big problem if I would loose those.

[bigfoot65]

I guess what I was trying to say is having one drive for the OS and Greyhole is not the best option. If that drive goes bad, you lose any files not replicated by Greyhole. Since you only have 2 drives, I can see where this is your only option.

Your future setup is what I was eluding to in the previous post. OS and LZ on one drive, other two for Greyhole. I have a similar setup, except I have 3 drives for Greyhole. Seems to work well for me.