Hello everyone, greetings!!
I have been using freenas/truenas for a while and this forum has always been able to answer whatever questions I had so far. However, I recently setup a new server with bigger hard drives which is up and running.
Here is the issue I am facing:
Since I had smalled hard drives, I had all my movies, songs and tv under folder name "media" and somewhat same directory structure with folders named 'movies' 'tv' 'songs' etc. but I had 3 such folders ('media') residing on 3 different datasets on different pools. Now that I have a bigger pool, I would want to merge all three 'media' folders with their sub-folders to a single dataset but how?
I can create a new dataset and then manually copy all the folders from different locations to it. This will take a long time since I have 2+tb of data and also my biggest concern is that sometimes the copy command spits out an error saying long file name or path or something in those lines.
Or I can use the replicate task but I am not too sure how it would play since the folder names are same so if I would replicate all three datasets to a single dataset, would it merge the sub-folders or files in them since they would be different names or will a new dateset replication overwrite the previous operation?
I have been using freenas/truenas for a while and this forum has always been able to answer whatever questions I had so far. However, I recently setup a new server with bigger hard drives which is up and running.
Here is the issue I am facing:
Since I had smalled hard drives, I had all my movies, songs and tv under folder name "media" and somewhat same directory structure with folders named 'movies' 'tv' 'songs' etc. but I had 3 such folders ('media') residing on 3 different datasets on different pools. Now that I have a bigger pool, I would want to merge all three 'media' folders with their sub-folders to a single dataset but how?
I can create a new dataset and then manually copy all the folders from different locations to it. This will take a long time since I have 2+tb of data and also my biggest concern is that sometimes the copy command spits out an error saying long file name or path or something in those lines.
Or I can use the replicate task but I am not too sure how it would play since the folder names are same so if I would replicate all three datasets to a single dataset, would it merge the sub-folders or files in them since they would be different names or will a new dateset replication overwrite the previous operation?