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| + | ====== Move data to Mac Mini Server ====== | ||
| + | I want to get all of the data on this linux server over to a mac server, held on our current mac mini that will come from the living room. Now that we have 2 apple TV devices, we dont need the mac mini as a TV device in living room, freeing it for server use. My hope is that 1) I dont have to mess with such low level stuff and piecing together 10 open source components when setting up hard drives and file shares and bonjour, etc 2) So that Sue can more easily modify or restart or understand the data on this server. | ||
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| + | ===== Plan ===== | ||
| + | Purchased a 3 TB HDD, and a USB enclosure that can take 4 drives. | ||
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| + | - Plug this enclosure in, with the 3TB drive in it, into the Linux Media Server. | ||
| + | - Format and mount the 3 TB drive on LMS, now we have the 2 TB raid and 3 TB hdd | ||
| + | - Copy the files over to 3 TB hdd | ||
| + | - check that copy is correct | ||
| + | - Install mac mini and get server edition running on it (cheap app store purchase) | ||
| + | - Bring 3TB hdd over to mac mini (via usb enclosure), mount it, | ||
| + | - check that files show | ||
| + | - check that streaming is fast enough | ||
| + | - Start Backblaze backup immediately | ||
| + | - Unplug 3 x 1TB drives from LMS, slide them into USB enclosure on mac mini | ||
| + | - Format the 3 x 1TB drives into a mac raid-jbod (just a bunch of disks) | ||
| + | - there is no fault tolerance here, but i will setup a backup solution via backblaze or the likes | ||
| + | - Copy the files from 3 TB hdd to 3 x 1 TB raid-jbod | ||
| + | - Format the 3 TB hdd on mac mini | ||
| + | - Add the 3 TB hdd into the raid-jbod array, to create a 6TB JBOD array | ||
| + | - Install menu-bar utility that allowed SMART monitoring status and emails | ||
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| + | ===== Format and Mount 3 TB as UDF ===== | ||
| + | Read an article that I should try UDF file system, so that when I take it to the mac, it can still be read natively. Ubuntu/linux also can format it. Little did I know, there was a bit of researched needed to format and mount it on linux. | ||
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| + | Turns out UDF does not use normal MBR (master boot record) at the begining of the disk. It does its own thing, and you just gobble up the entire disk. So I messed with partitions at first, without knowing I didnt need to. Instead, it is good to first clear the MBR at the start of the disk, and then format with udftools on ubuntu. See commands below. | ||
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| + | sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde bs=512 count=1 | ||
| + | sudo mkudffs --media-type=hd --blocksize=512 /dev/sde | ||
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| + | Got the info from here: | ||
| + | - http://superuser.com/questions/39942/using-udf-on-a-usb-flash-drive/ | ||
| + | - http://superuser.com/a/567559/110601 | ||
| + | - http://superuser.com/questions/526174/what-unix-like-filesystem-can-easily-and-safely-be-mounted-on-both-the-mac-and-l/ | ||
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| + | When I look at the drive capacity though, with `df -h` it says the drives size is 747G. Not 3 TB :-( | ||
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| + | I could still test the 3TB UDF drive on the mac mini to see if it mounts and has files on it. | ||