Moving existing Amahi data drives to a new installation

[fitzy89]

Not sure if this should be in the installation section or elsewhere, if this is the wrong category I apologise

I've currently got an Amahi 6 Fedora install up and running with a few drives in it, my whole system is a mess having not set it up correctly in the first place and manually fixing things afterwards. For this reason, and also due to limitations of that hardware I am currently running, I would like to setup a complete new Amahi 7 server.

My new server will have a new, clean system drive which will be the only one connected during installation to keep things clean. I currently have Greyhole setup on my current server, and 3 hard drives each at least 50% full of data. What is the best/easiest/preferred method of transferring these drives into the new system without losing the current data? I will be adding Greyhole to the new Amahi 7 system too, is it as simple as just putting the new drives in, setting up fstab and greyhole will recognise the files on there or would I need to move the data off, clear the drives and copy it all back? I should add that the drives are 2x 1TB and 1x2TB, and I've got a spare unused 2TB drive I can use for temporary storage, and this drive will eventually be added to the new server as part of the pool.

I don't need to keep any current system settings or apps, all I am looking to transfer is the data.

Any advice would be gladly appreciated.
Thanks!

[bigfoot65]

Follow the guidance in the wiki.
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Reconn ... orage_pool

[davymac]

Looking for some assurance about adding my drives to a new install and didn't see the point setting up a new thread. I've already got an Amahi 6 running with 3 data drives and now setting up a completely new Amahi 7 system and want to change my data drives over. I read the wiki and just need assurance I'm doing the right thing cos I'm not great with linux.

I set up the AMahi 7 and it seems to be working but can't access it by VNC so will have to go down the SSH route unless there are any other options.

To back up the files do I just use the gedit command and copy the contents into notepad on my pc? I've done that and thought there would be more in them.

I've got 2x2tb and 1x3tb data drives, will I be able to mount them using mount -a after updating the fstab file or do I need to do anything else for the 3tb drive as I had to when adding it to my amahi 6 rig. This is a completely new build hence why the amahi 6 is still up and running.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

[bigfoot65]

I set up the AMahi 7 and it seems to be working but can't access it by VNC so will have to go down the SSH route unless there are any other options.

That is because Amahi 7 is headless, no desktop GUI installed. You have to install/setup VNC on the server.

To back up the files do I just use the gedit command and copy the contents into notepad on my pc? I've done that and thought there would be more in them.

Please elaborate on what you mean by this statement.

I've got 2x2tb and 1x3tb data drives, will I be able to mount them using mount -a after updating the fstab file or do I need to do anything else for the 3tb drive as I had to when adding it to my amahi 6 rig. This is a completely new build hence why the amahi 6 is still up and running.

You will need to follow the same process you did initially to install them on AMahi 6. Follow the guidance https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Adding ... o_your_HDA but skip the formatting portion.

You might also find this helpful.
https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Reconn ... orage_pool

[davymac]

Quote:
I set up the AMahi 7 and it seems to be working but can't access it by VNC so will have to go down the SSH route unless there are any other options.

That is because Amahi 7 is headless, no desktop GUI installed. You have to install/setup VNC on the server.

I installed the one click app but had no joy when trying to connect to it from pc.

Quote:
To back up the files do I just use the gedit command and copy the contents into notepad on my pc? I've done that and thought there would be more in them.

Please elaborate on what you mean by this statement.

The wiki says to back up the files his is what i have but not sure if it is correct.

fstab
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Tue Jun 5 13:43:13 2012
#
# 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
#
UUID=316780d2-f6d0-4e39-bb60-374d3ae1b87d / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=85e9c9dd-6111-4e8e-9eaf-ccae13dc0f1c /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=b7626e01-c96e-4b0f-99f9-1d5e8f046f20 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=b62dec79-3dfe-4081-9506-3d7acb43af83 /var/hda/files ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=9877988a-6147-462c-976d-a240eaa6d73b /var/hda/files/drives/drive2 ext4 defaults 1 2
UUID=eec96457-83e9-49a7-8ffd-0f735d75211b /var/hda/files/drives/drive3 ext4 defaults 1 2

greyhole.conf
# This file is automatically generated by Amahi on Sun Oct 06 11:04:03 +0100 2013
# 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/gh, min_free: 10gb
storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/drives/drive2/gh, min_free: 10gb
storage_pool_directory = /var/hda/files/drives/drive3/gh, min_free: 10gb
num_copies[Books] = 1
num_copies[Pictures] = 1
num_copies[Movies] = 1
num_copies[Music] = 1
num_copies[Docs] = 1
num_copies[TV] = 1

I'll be having a look at it in the morning and see if I can get it set up and running. Thanks for the input so fa bigfoot, it's really appreciated just need that helping hand to make sure I'm doing the right thing.

[bigfoot65]

Yes those are the correct files to back up.

As far as VNC, can you elaborate on what did not work. I have been testing it with Amahi 7 and works fine for me.

[davymac]

Time for update, I didn't get a chance to fix the hda last week but kept getting an error couldn't connect using VNC. I decided to start from scratch and installed the full DVD version and now have it up and running and can connect via VNC, gnome desktop is very different to my amahi6.

Still not got the data disks set up but hopefully get a chance to try to get that sorted later today or tomorrow. Do I need to install greyhole before adding the disks?

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[bigfoot65]

Don't have to. You can install in any order.

[davymac]

I managed to add the drives and get everything updated and seems to be running ok. Thanks for the help Bigfoot, greatly appreciated.

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[bigfoot65]

Great to hear. Happy to help.