I’ve read the posts on moving. I have the documentation on saving the database.
I’ve been using RPi and OSMC for many years. Absolutely love it. I think I have the most recent RPi HW, or close to it. I considered Vero but, alas, no USB3 which is the feature that will drive me to upgrade. … and possibly, in part, what this post is about.
I use one of two setups (or have over the years).
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Currently I have an RPi with a HDD connected directly to one of the USB ports. I run Samba for access. For various reasons I can only use WiFi at the moment and it’s all quite slow (adding movies). Playing is fine, although they are fairly slow to load.
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Same basic setup except instead of the storage being on a local (USB attached) HDD it’s on another machine and shared (Probably Windows 10 with a share and then mounting it on the RPi via the fstab).
For solutions:
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I may try to run a cable. Difficult but possible but that still leaves the drive on a USB2 port.
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The other option is to move from 1 to 2 - USB to SMB. Mounting the drive on a Win10 machine, with a USB3 connection and then sharing / mounting that.
Any thoughts, preferences or experiences?
While I will certainly backup the DB first, any ideas on how to move everything without hurting the database? I have a watchdog running that deletes things when they disappear (or are moved). I can easily (I think) create a symlink so the RPi / OSMC won’t even be able to tell the data has moved, but I’m worried about the transition period. Any thoughts?
Thanks for any advice. No worries if there is none. I just want a sanity check and hopefully I can avoid having to do this multiple times (or corrupting the DB).