The big migration

[jellynoob1994]

Hi there my fellow homelab'rs and jelly's

First of all im scared as hell

I will be migrating between Windows (current setup) to proxmox

But what to do with al my movies pictures and documents 

Ive been playing with proxmox for few weeks now and im impressed with how it works and how powerful it is to a Linux noob like me

Basic things i got to work pretty quickly caddy Cloudflare tunnels and next cloud and many more applications

But now is the Big Jump coming 

Deleting Windows
And upgrading to Linux 

Now my biggest hurdle is moving all of my data to the new host

So what can you guys suggest me doing to make this as smooth and fool proof as possible 

Your's truely

[User 9863]

Why delete windows? Why not get another drive and keep windows so you can copy any files you need from the older windows install? And also revert back if things go wrong

[jellynoob1994]

because windows be windows why use an os that eats 8 gigs of ram and does shit other then feed me ads and sell my personal data
lack of local accounts etc etc

[User 9863]

That's still not a good reason to delete your old data.

[Crumpledbread8]

Do you have other available drives? Proxmox should be able to read your windows ntfs filesystem just fine.

[jellynoob1994]

i went for the truenas solution... after quite the debate
its similar to proxmox but fancy'er

the move was quite as hassle

but not that hard

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Do you have other available drives? Proxmox should be able to read your windows ntfs filesystem just fine.

to come back to you question ive bought a boatload of 6tb sas drives souly for the 12 gig trasnfer speed

after truenas was ready for my media ive moved everything with smb shares