[HELP] Looking to migrate media functions to Ubuntu box

[badtoy1986]

I currently have 2 2TB WD red drives installed in a mirror in my FreeNAS box. It started as an expiriment but now is growing quickly. I want to move my media functions (Couchpotato, Sickrage, Plex, and SABnzbd) to my Ubuntu box that currently runs my web server. I want to transition my Freenas box to mainly a backup machine for my other devices and maybe some redundant database storage.
I am looking to keep my media and I was hoping someone could point me in the easiest way to migrate preferably with the existing drives into my Ubuntu machine. Is it possible to just add the drives to my Ubuntu box? If not what do I need to back up in order to keep my settings and for my related media apps.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

all of those programs have what I call data-directories, which contain their config/database/cache. You could probably backup and restore them to the jail(s) you run these programs on, on FreeNAS. Most of the plugins have their data-directories saved at /var/db/PLUGIN_NAME

 

[eldo]

badtoy,

If I understand you correctly, you're looking to migrate your services and media off of your freenas bmachine and onto your ubuntu box, including the mirrored ZFS drives currently in freenas?
If so, I think you've got some work ahead of you. I do not believe that zfs on linux supports freenas configured drives, so a direct move may not be possible.
Probably the fastest/easiest may be to install the services on your ubuntu box, transfer the config/database/cache files per Joshua's suggestion (in effect importing their settings so the cross mappings, api keys, etc match -- but you'll have to take a look at ip addresses and ports since you're not going to be in bsd jails), then copy your media over to the ubuntu box (you may find nfs faster than smb for this. I did going ubuntu to freenas).

 

[joeschmuck]

This is an interesting question as I've never seen it before. Being someone who like clean installations I would be in favor of just installing the services on your Ubuntu machine and then moving your media over. This would mean you not copying any configuration files from the FreeNAS jails and just performing a clean install.