Transferring everything from one HDD to another one

[Drake97]

Hello everyone, I am here for your usual help, I know you can tell me the best way to achieve what I need, a little context:

I have inside my SFF PC, 2 drives, one main Seagate barracuda 3.5" 2TB full of movies and shows and another 2.5" 1TB full.
I just bought a Seagate Ironwolf 4TB and I need to replace the Seagate Barracuda 2TB with this Ironwolf, to achieve this, do you know what would be the best way to move everything from one disk to another ? currently the Barracuda 2tb I have it mounted in /media/server/Media1 and I was wondering if i mount the new Ironwolf in /media/server/Media1 will be everything as is ? I hope you understand what I want to achieve.
PS: adding the Ironwolf externally is not an option, as I have an external 3.5" drive but I plan to leave the barracuda that way.

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Thx in advance

[Efficient_Good_5784]

How are you running Jellyfin.

As long as all the files are presented and accessible to Jellyfin as before the transfer with the same paths, everything should show up the same as before.

Is Jellyfin installed on the disk you're replacing? Or is the disk exclusively just media files?

[Drake97]

How are you running Jellyfin.

As long as all the files are presented and accessible to Jellyfin as before the transfer with the same paths, everything should show up the same as before.

Is Jellyfin installed on the disk you're replacing? Or is the disk exclusively just media files?

Jellyfin I have it installed on a separate SSD and yes, the HDD is only for video files, nothing else.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Then yeah, as long as all the data is presented with the same paths to Jellyfin, you should be fine.

[Drake97]

Then yeah, as long as all the data is presented with the same paths to Jellyfin, you should be fine.

I understand, although perhaps I expressed myself badly, my doubt goes directly to how it would be the best way to transfer the contents of a disk to another, would be to remove one and pass everything by usb ? via samba, know more than anything if you have any suggestions to take, thanks

[theguymadmax]

So I’m guessing you don’t have access to an external dual-bay hard drive docking station.

Steps I would take:
Remove the 1TB and add in the 4TB. Then copy over the data from the 2TB to the 4TB  (see below options).
Remove the 4TB and add back in the 1TB.
Remove the 2TB and add in the 4TB

Copy options:

1. rsync (cloning specific files or directories)

Code:

sudo rsync -avx /source/ /destination/

2. Copy folders using the local file manager

3. dd (cloning whole disk)

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress

adjust adjust as needed
if=/dev/sda = source drive
of=/dev/sdb = destination drive

4.clonezilla (tool for cloning)

Code:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install clonezilla

[Drake97]

So I’m guessing you don’t have access to an external dual-bay hard drive docking station.

Steps I would take:
Remove the 1TB and add in the 4TB. Then copy over the data from the 2TB to the 4TB  (see below options).
Remove the 4TB and add back in the 1TB.
Remove the 2TB and add in the 4TB

Copy options:

1. rsync (cloning specific files or directories)

Code:

sudo rsync -avx /source/ /destination/

2. Copy folders using the local file manager

3. dd (cloning whole disk)

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=4M status=progress

adjust adjust as needed
if=/dev/sda = source drive
of=/dev/sdb = destination drive

4.clonezilla (tool for cloning)

Code:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install clonezilla

Hello,
I ended up doing the migration of only the folders separately and it worked flawlessly, however, I have a problem currently: the collections do not group me the movies, do you know if there is a way to reset it and that I group again the movies and shows in collections ? The idea is not to do it manually with each movie

[theguymadmax]

For collections install the TMDb Box Sets from Dashboard->Catalog (this is different than the TMDb plugin installed by default). Then go to Dashboard->Scheduled Tasks and manually run TMDb - Scan library for new box sets.

[Drake97]

For collections install the TMDb Box Sets from Dashboard->Catalog (this is different than the TMDb plugin installed by default). Then go to Dashboard->Scheduled Tasks and manually run TMDb - Scan library for new box sets.

Thanks a lot!!