Moving shared folder contents with MC after relocating shared folders to another drive.

Hello all,

The title says mostly all.

I have upgraded a disk in my OMV installation from 500GB to 1TB. I am trying to move the shared folders and their contents from the 500GB to the new 1TB drive, by using the 'Access Rights Management>Shared Folders' section in the Web GUI. Its fine, but it does warn that only the folder will be moved and that I will need to move the contents myself. For this I am trying to use Midnight Commander through SSH.

After relocating the share in the web GUI, I have the share in both panels of Midnight Commander (the original on the left and a new one on the right). When I open the original one, there are no contents to copy to the new one. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong here?

Thanks,
Nick.

Zitat von DHGE

difficult... to diagnose from here
might be rights problems
what if you run mc as root?

Well, I don't think that its permissions as I can see the contents of the original directory in mc before I move the shared folder using the web GUI. I think I am already running mc as root as I start the SSH session as root, the run the mc command, so I guess this means I am in mc as root? Also I have run mc as sudo.

Zitat

I would have done it differently:
- rsync -ar the contents from the old drive to the new
- unshare the old directories
- share the new directories
- disconnect the old drive

Yes, I could do it that way but i am quite enjoying mc and learning a bit more about the command line. I must say that I'm very impressed with the speed you can move large directories around - its blisteringly fast. So, maybe I'll take another look when I get home later on.

Thanks,
Nick.

Zitat von Adoby

Either move the data as root: sudo mc. Could be dangerous...

Or login over SSH as a user that is a member of the group users. And move the data using mc.

Or, better still, using rsync -ar.

Shared folders, and files in shared folders, are by default owned by root:users. Typically you would use a user that is member of ssh, sudo and users for managing the files using SSH rsync and/or mc.

Possibly reset permissions first using the plugin resetperm if owner, for some reason, is not root:users.

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OK, thank you, I will have another look when I get home.

Much appreciated,
Nick.

Sorry, I skipped through this a bit qiuickly at work today - when I saw r-sync, I was thinking that it was being suggested that I set up a job through the web GUI, but it seems you are both suggesting that I do it via the cl. Sorry about that - off now to see what I can do.

Ta,
Nick.

OK, so I ended up just taking the old disk out, recreating the shares and I am now r-syncing the stuff across with the web GUI.

Hopefully this will work and i have enjoyed using MC and learning some new things.

Hello again,

OK, so many months have passed and I am back trying to use the CL again. These will be very basic questions, on how to navigate the directory structure. I have had a dig around on the web but I'm not getting anywhere.

So, I have opened Terminal on my mac and logged in using:

ssh root@192.168.1.98

Then I enter the password for root.

I list the contents of the current directory

root@openmediavault:/# ls

[admin@]192.168.0.99:Photos lib sharedfolders

bin lib64 srv

boot lost+found sys

dev media tmp

etc mnt usr

export opt var

ftpuser@192.168.1.99 proc vmlinuz

home root vmlinuz.old

initrd.img run

initrd.img.old sbin

Then open the shared folders directory and list its contents:

root@openmediavault:/# cd /sharedfolders

root@openmediavault:/sharedfolders# ls

documents eppc kit music photos web

dolly jack media nick plexmusic

Wow! this is working!

I want to look at the files in 'dolly', so, that's cd /dolly?

Seems not, as I get this -bash: cd: /dolly: No such file or directory

So, I'm missing something here. I know that 'dolly' is a directory, and can confirm that with:

root@openmediavault:/sharedfolders# ls -F

documents/ eppc/ kit/ music/ photos/ web/

dolly/ jack/ media/ nick/ plexmusic/

Can somebody please help the noob?

Thanks,

Nick.

Ah, I see!

So, basically, / means 'look in root for', in this case, dolly?

I 'm currently poking about in a OMV4 installation, so my sharedfolders directory is populated, which makes sense. I'll go and look around in the OMV5 installation and see how I go.

Thanks for the tips!

OK, so here is where I am.

As you say, sharedfolders in OMV5 is empty, so I looked in /srv and I have 3 entries:

root@omvpeR210up:/srv# ls

dev-disk-by-uuid-4ca5a313-a7f8-46fc-9434-d29c6e83fbc7 ftp

dev-disk-by-uuid-81765f11-ef08-48ae-a597-e891180b2df2 pillar

f86f37f0-c4cf-4576-a93b-a6be71977269 salt

It might help now to tell you what I'm trying to do as I'm not sure which of the above I need to refer to.

I'd like to transfer some stuff from one server to another (yes, we're back here again).

Source server is 192.168.1.98, shared directory is: dolly

Destination server is: 192.168.1.14, shared directory is: dolly

Looking online, I think I need to do something like:

SSH into source server as root, and enter:

rsync -a /sharedfolders/dolly/ remote_nick@192.168.1.14:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-4ca5a313-a7f8-46fc-9434-d29c6e83fbc7...

But surely I need to add /dolly to the end of that? Can i look 'inside' one of those uuid's to find the directory?

Hope that makes sense!

Zitat von ryecoaaron

That is six entries. ls -al is a little better at showing that.

Ah, I thought the ftp, pillar and salt were part of the uuid's - seemed odd at the time so this explains it. Thanks.

Zitat von macom

Yes you can "cd" into them.

For this tab completion is usefull. Just type the first letters and the press the tab key and it will autocomplete

Great tip - thank you. Beats copying and pasting!

EDIT: Hang on, I think I've messed something else up here first. Ignore all this for now.

OK, so I am now here, I know this is painful for you but please bear with me.

rsync -amv /sharedfolders/dolly/ root@192.168.1.14:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-81765f11-ef08-48ae-a597-e891180b2df/dolly

I get this output:

building file list ... done

created directory /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-81765f11-ef08-48ae-a597-e891180b2df/dolly

./

.DS_Store

._.DS_Store

._RA 20_10_2020.docx

._The Fairy.docx

._Wings Hannah-Mae.mp4

._invoice.pdf

._invoice.xlsx

._notes.jpg

._quiz.jpg

._smile.png

._thumbsup.png

RA 20_10_2020.docx

The Best of 2019.mp4

I see it says 'created directory', and I don't want it to do this, I want it to copy the files from /sharedfolders/dolly/ to /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-81765f11-ef08-48ae-a597-e891180b2df/dolly I though that the trailing slash in /sharedfolders/dolly/ would do this.

Other than that, I'm enjoying this! (a bit).

Thanks,

Nick.

Yes, I think I was copying to above the directory I wanted. No worries, it will give me a bit more experience now I have to go and delete stuff!

OK, I have defo messed things up here.

I have been trying things out with rsync, not sure that the commands were working or not, but now I think they were. When I enter the rsync command, it asks for the password and then just stays blank - I thought it had hung up but maybe it was running.

Further up thread /srv ls was giving me this:

dev-disk-by-uuid-4ca5a313-a7f8-46fc-9434-d29c6e83fbc7 ftp

dev-disk-by-uuid-81765f11-ef08-48ae-a597-e891180b2df2 pillar

f86f37f0-c4cf-4576-a93b-a6be71977269 salt

Now /srv ls is giving me this:

dev-disk-by-uuid-4ca5a313-a7f8-46fc-9434-d29c6e83fbc7 ftp

dev-disk-by-uuid-81765f11-ef08-48ae-a597-e891180b2df pillar

dev-disk-by-uuid-81765f11-ef08-48ae-a597-e891180b2df2 salt

f86f37f0-c4cf-4576-a93b-a6be71977269

It looks like I have created a directory called f86f37f0-c4cf-4576-a93b-a6be71977269 and filled it up with:

root@omvpeR210up:/srv/f86f37f0-c4cf-4576-a93b-a6be71977269# ls

15_-13th_December_2010.pdf

20141015_182658.jpg

20150121_175555.jpg

'3106-1010-1044-VH - Service Technician.docx'

'6853 - bgt.htm'

765E2DA6.tmp

'Anatomy and Physiology.docx'

aquota.group

aquota.user

Assignments

'Audition Form 2011.doc'

Autonomy.docx

'backed up'

'Backed up kits old desktop'

'But That Is My Book.docx'

Carolyn

'Charlie And Lol1.doc'

'Charlie and Lola.doc'

'CHC Training evaluation.docx'

'Copy of Downloads'

'CYSTIC FIBROSIS.docx'

D68FCEDE.tmp

'desktop backup'

documents

Documents

dolly

'Dolly Revision'

Downloads

'Ebay Pics of Cupboard'

eppc

'FiFi and the Flowertots Singalong Song - YouTube_files'

'IP Cam Software Jack'

'Job Applications'

kit

"kit's phone"

'Kits S3 Mini SD Backup'

kwikfit

'Laptop Backup April 2014'

'Log sheets'

lost+found

'My Music'

'My Pictures'

'My Safes'

nick

'Old Stuff'

passes

Phone

'Phone Backup September 2017'

'Phone pics Dec 20_one_2'

photos

'pics from phone'

pst

QMUL

'RA 20_10_2020.docx'

@Recycle

Sage

'Sage Backups'

scans

'School Nurse PDFs'

Software

'Space Mountain POV Walt Disney World - YouTube_files'

'Swimming 31 Dec 2012'

Training-Course-Evaluation-Form

'TTDN Accounts'

Work

Where on earth has 86f37f0-c4cf-4576-a93b-a6be71977269 come from?

What on earth have I done? I guess I just run rm /srv/f86f37f0-c4cf-4576-a93b-a6be71977269