Starting Over - retain data on HDDs

hamby

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This is where I am at which is a total loss. I was running 11.1 for a long time. Saw TrueNAS was coming out and thought "Well I should probably update to this." Since I am not well versed in the shell (two kids in 3 years will do that to me) and this is more of a hobby. I do have ixSystems FreeNAS Mini which I love and look forward to TrueNAS better GUI from 11.1. I did manage to update to 11.2 -U8 but my jails are still warden and not iocage. Here is the gist of what I would love some help with for someone on such a low level as myself. I have resigned my fate to rebuild everything, which honestly it probably needs to happen anyway. A few questions though:
  • How do I find Plex Meta data? I tried and permission was denied even though I am logged in as root. root@freenas:~ # cp -R /mnt/harddrives/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/Plex usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ... target_directory root@freenas:~ # /mnt/harddrives/iocage/jails/plex-plexpass /mnt/harddrives/iocage/jails/plex-plexpass: Permission denied.
  • If I can get the plex meta data...I want to basically redo the system to have TrueNAS running well. I assume getting rid of the old plugins (which are in jails) and starting it over? Or is there an easy-to-use for dummies step-by-step guide to move from warden to iocage?
  • I am quite lost and over my head at the moment. I get a few hours on Friday's to delve into this stuff before I have to be on dad duty again. I am nearing the point of just doing a screen share and I am sure someone on here would know exactly what to do in less than ten minutes. #DadsOfTrueNas
 

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cp -R /mnt/harddrives/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/Plex
I think you'll find that the directory you're trying to copy is actually "Plex Media Server", not "Plex".

So either try surrounding the whole path with quotes, or use cp -R /mnt/harddrives/jails/plexmediaserver_1/var/db/plexdata/Plex\ Media\ Server (which has backslashes to escape the spaces in the path).
 
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