Help moving media folder

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Hello I am a complete noob at using truenas but i can follow basic guides

Currently running ElectricEel-24.10.2.1

I have a pool containing the data for my media server i.e. all the movies and tv series located in Tank/Data/Media. This is a 8tb raidz1 that has become nearly full.

Due to the nearly full drives i have purchased some seagate Exos drives and set up another raidz1 pool 21Tb ish created a dataset Tank Media/Media and a share.

I am simply looking to copy the data from Tank/…/Media to Tank Media/Media. Tried a replication task but that did bascially nothing for some reason.

I have also tried using the filebrowser app but that posed difficult due to constant 403 errors.

I am also aware that i can just use the shares on my main computer to copy and paste thte data that way but I can tell that would probably take an extreamly long amount of time.

I apologise for the basic nature of my problem but there arn’t a lot of basic guides for this type of thing.

Thanks for any Help

Rob

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For a replication task to work, you will need a snapshot to be created first. Mostly this is what you are missing based on the info provided.

Please try creating a snapshot for the source dataset and then try the replication task using the source snapshot. Also if you have sub datasets remember to choose the recursive checkbox in UI while creating snapshot.

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you can use rsync instead if you just want to move plain data

example:

rsync -av /mnt/WD16TB/Media/ /mnt/WD8TB/BACKUP/Media --ignore-existing --info=progress2 --delete --stats > /var/log/rsync-move.log

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Thank you so much this was the missing ingredient. It now seems stupidly obvious.

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