Had to build a new media server due to system age and other problems. The old system had a drivepool made up of 6 HDD's containing approximately 10.5TB of data. The new system has two HDD's (8TB and 10TB). I deactivated the license on the old system and installed drivepool, transferred license and made new pool with the two drives. These two drives now each have the "poolpart.xxx" folder. I stopped the service on both systems and began copying the contents of the old "poolpart.xxx" folders to the new "poolpart.xxx" folders. This is the only option I have as the new system does not have room to just mover the HDD's from the old to the new. I'm unclear on a couple of issues.
1) Since I'm going from 6 HDD's to 2 HDD's how do I pick which "poolpart.xxx" folder on the new system to copy the "poolpart.xxx" folder contents that are on the old system.
2) If it doesn't make any difference since I will have to run balancing, will the folders just add to each other or will they overwrite? I started with the procedure and when I placed the contents of the "poolpart.xxx" folder in the "poolpart.xxx" folder on the new machine that were from the second hard drive on the old system I got a message that I had 342 files that contained the same info. It asked if I wanted to skip these files, save them and not the existing files or keep both copies and the duplicate would have a "2" behind them. Appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks
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Had to build a new media server due to system age and other problems. The old system had a drivepool made up of 6 HDD's containing approximately 10.5TB of data. The new system has two HDD's (8TB and 10TB). I deactivated the license on the old system and installed drivepool, transferred license and made new pool with the two drives. These two drives now each have the "poolpart.xxx" folder. I stopped the service on both systems and began copying the contents of the old "poolpart.xxx" folders to the new "poolpart.xxx" folders. This is the only option I have as the new system does not have room to just mover the HDD's from the old to the new. I'm unclear on a couple of issues.
1) Since I'm going from 6 HDD's to 2 HDD's how do I pick which "poolpart.xxx" folder on the new system to copy the "poolpart.xxx" folder contents that are on the old system.
2) If it doesn't make any difference since I will have to run balancing, will the folders just add to each other or will they overwrite? I started with the procedure and when I placed the contents of the "poolpart.xxx" folder in the "poolpart.xxx" folder on the new machine that were from the second hard drive on the old system I got a message that I had 342 files that contained the same info. It asked if I wanted to skip these files, save them and not the existing files or keep both copies and the duplicate would have a "2" behind them. Appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks
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