SOLVED: Pool Migration Issue

[evylrat]

I'm moving from Amahi 6.3 to 9. Perfect time, my motherboard died.

It's running fine so far, but I cannot get my Drive Pool in. The reason? The shares in Amahi 6.3 had capitals at the beginning and in amahi 9 they're all lowercase.

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WARN initialize: Found a share (Backup) defined in /etc/greyhole.conf with no path in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Either add this share in /etc/samba/smb.conf, or remove it from /etc/greyhole.conf, then restart Greyhole. CRITICAL initialize: Config file parsing failed. Exiting.

Example from Amahi 6.3

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SMB.conf Books comment = Books path = /var/hda/files/Books

from Amahi 9

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SMB.conf Books comment = Books path = /var/hda/files/books

I cannot create a share with capitalized first letter. And I'm a linux newbie. I didn't want to start messing with the storage pool directly.

Can anyone give my some advice?
Thanks in advance.

[bigfoot65]

Rename the shares via command line to lower case.

For example:

move /var/hda/files/Books /var/hda/files/books

The share path in the dashboard may need to be changed to reflect the same.

Recommend you stop Greyhole and turn off watchdog before doing the above.

[evylrat]

I'll be renaming the shares to capitalized first letter, to match what's in the drive pool. My drive pool from 6.3 has Capitalized first letters;
eg /var/hda/files/drives/drive5/gh/Books
Just to double check, since it's probably better to stick with what Amahi 9 likes (ready for the NEXT migration), is it possible to rename all the folders in the GH directories on the 3 drives in the pool?
eg
/var/hda/files/drives/drive2/gh/Books --> /var/hda/files/drives/drive2/gh/books
/var/hda/files/drives/drive3/gh/Books --> /var/hda/files/drives/drive3/gh/books
/var/hda/files/drives/drive5/gh/Books --> /var/hda/files/drives/drive5/gh/books

Then once the pool is running it's time to add new drives one at a time and do the going command. I can't get enough drives together for a backup, so I've actually used some of the new drives for the time being. Once I know one drive has been added and all is well and an old one removed, I will have to figure out a new backup.

[bigfoot65]

I'll be renaming the shares to capitalized first letter, to match what's in the drive pool. My drive pool from 6.3 has Capitalized first letters;eg /var/hda/files/drives/drive5/gh/Books

The Shares should reflect title case in the HDA dashboard unless you changed it. As for the actual directory name, it can reflect title or lower case as long as the path for each matches the structure.

Just to double check, since it's probably better to stick with what Amahi 9 likes (ready for the NEXT migration), is it possible to rename all the folders in the GH directories on the 3 drives in the pool?

It's not necessary to rename the shares in the Greyhole directory. It uses the Samba share name which is already title case.

As long as the shares in /var/hda/files match the path in the dashboard, it should all work. You have to follow the reconnect reconnect existing Greyhole storage pool guidance in the wiki. This will ensure everything syncs up.

Also would be good if you followed the HDA OS Migration Guide. It was designed for moving from Ubuntu to the latest Amahi stable release.

[evylrat]

Also would be good if you followed the HDA OS Migration Guide. It was designed for moving from Ubuntu to the latest Amahi stable release.

Thanks, I'm following that, i've hit the snag at

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Verify Operational Before proceeding to the next section, verify Greyhole is working properly. This can be done by monitoring the log: tail -f /var/log/grehole.log If there is a problem, refer to Greyhole Troubleshooting. Don't forget to install Mount Shares Locally service if needed.

I'm going to remove the pool and just add a drive to verify Greyhole's operation.

I think actually there's a deeper issue.

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Status: Greyhole is currently not active

Going start again and make sure I double check the guides.

[bigfoot65]

Closing this thread since a new one was started.

[evylrat]

No problem. I'm testing the Amahi installation on different hardware this morning to see if I get the same issue.

[evylrat]

Closing this thread since a new one was started.

I can confirm that this issue was due to using the DVD install version of Fedora 23 server. When I used the NET install version, Greyhole functioned as expected, and my Drive Pool is being imported as per wiki instruction. Now the painful wait as the pool populates.

[bigfoot65]

can confirm that this issue was due to using the DVD install version of Fedora 23 server.

Not sure why it would matter. Maybe you did not follow the instructions when installing?

We have extensively tested with the DVD and had no issues.