Need some help, I'm a bit out of my depth

Zitat von macom

I assume this is the source. The drive has the label "TerrorData" and then you have a folder on that drive called "TerrorData". Is that correct?

Are there any data in that folder?

Yes, that's right, I named the drive and the folder the same thing. Might that be causing all the problem? There's loads of data on TerrorData, I plugged it in directly into my Elementary machine the other day to use Gparted to remove the space from the name of the disk and I checked that the data was OK - browsed through the folders, played a couple of files. As you can see from the screen grab 1.64TB has been used

Oh right. How do I do that then? I haven't seen any way to browse the contents of the drive. I just want to copy it all though, so the entire drive would be good. I take it I've not done that yet?

Ahh, maybe because the instructions describe how to set up a wiped drive then I've missed a step out that actually shares existing data. Maybe that's why I get empty folders no my Windows laptop and my Elementary pc. And why there was nothing to copy over to the new drive.

OK. I do use Terminal a bit on the Elementary machine. I've got to grips with sudo apt update/upgrade/autoremove, installed nordvpn and can check on that, I'm just about OK with cd, ls, dir, cp, mv, rm. Got major problem with bluetoothctl at the mo, it all seems to have stopped working, no idea why.

One of the setup videos I watched installed shellinabox (I think) as an update or plugin, that looked like a sort of command line. However, it's not there in the extras or updates now, and I've looked through them all and nothing sounds like it does that job. I suppose I can work directly back on the server. I'll see how I get on Thanks

Shellinabox is dead.

No problem, I'm now exploring Powershell. I've logged onto the server as root@thevault:~#

I shall go away and get to grips with command line stuff a bit more. I kinds know that root is like an admin level thing and so I need to set up a user (ls, dir etc don't seem to do anything a the mo).

I suppose I could create a shared folder on one of my wiped drives, plug the old drive back into Elementary and copy the files over from there.

Edit** I've installed Midnight Commander, that should keep me quiet for a while.

Right. I promise I'm trying my best here, but I'm stuck again.

Zitat von Adoby

Also, in the documentation for OMV there is a lot of helpful information.

Where is this documentation? Is it on openmediavault.org somewhere?

No, I'm not trolling. Simply asking for help. You don't have to participate in this thread if it's annoying you so much. My apologies for not arriving at this forum with all required knowledge already.

Thanks then

OK, so I did eventually find the documentation - in the footer of the website where I never thought to look and even when looking through every page. I even googled it and checked all the menu options in OMV itself. But I'm sure I've learnt something valuable about website footers.

Anyhow, I tried my best with Midnight Commander, but try as I might all I could see in either panel was the files on the OMV drive, I could not figure out how to browse to another drive and so didn't use it to copy anything. My solution in the end was to create a shared folder using OMV then use the Elementary pc to transfer files (I remembered that that power supply came with additional cables that I hadn't used and so plugging in more hard drives was an option). The Elementary pc is a lot newer and faster anyway so was probably the best way to do the copying.

So, mission accomplished I was trying my best, apologies it was a bit annoying. But thanks for all the help, I have certainly learnt a bit about file structures and methods of sharing, and I got there in the end. Thanks