My NAS System drive is filled up so I've repurposed an M.2 drive to act as the new Sparkbox system volume. I'm looking to transfer the system as seamlessly as possible, and the AI was walking me through it, but its going step by step and when I stop sparkbox on my machine to start the transfer the AI agent shuts down with it. Can anyone provide each step so I can transfer from /opt/sparkbox to /volume3 ? Thanks
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Chris wrote:
I understand why you want the whole move planned before stopping SparkBox; the AI session going away with the service makes a step-by-step transfer especially awkward. Please don't stop it or copy the installation yet. As a first step, reply with your NAS model and OS/version, and how SparkBox was installed (for example, a package/container manager or an install script). The safe relocation steps depend on that setup, and I’ll give you one complete, ordered batch rather than steps that rely on the AI staying up.
EineBeBoP wrote:
UGREEN NAS DXP2800, Install script I think? Can you provide an example?
Chris wrote:
Thanks, that confirms it’s a UGREEN DXP2800 and probably an install-script setup. I can’t give you a safe example for moving the SparkBox installation from /opt/sparkbox to /volume3: there isn’t a supported install-move procedure, and copying the folder can leave the system in a broken or hard-to-update state. Please leave the current installation in place and don’t stop or copy it. Is your main goal to free space on the system volume, or specifically to relocate SparkBox itself?
EineBeBoP wrote:
relocate sparkbox to a larger drive to allow for multiple backups stored locally, and less upkeep to keep the NAS system drive clear
Chris wrote:
That makes sense: you want the larger drive for local backup space and to keep the NAS system volume clear. I can’t give you a safe procedure to move /opt/sparkbox to /volume3; there is no supported install-move path, and copying the install can leave SparkBox unable to start or update correctly. Please leave the current install in place and don’t stop or copy it. To check the safer option of moving only backup files, what are you currently using to create the backups, and where are those files stored? Please don’t include credentials or private configuration.
Chris wrote:
Thanks, that tells me what you are after. Here is the whole picture in one go, so nothing depends on the AI staying up. Please keep SparkBox where it is. On a UGREEN it lives on the system drive on purpose: UGOS keeps reapplying its shared-folder permissions to everything on a /volume drive, and that locks SparkBox's own files, so an install moved to /volume3 stops working. SparkBox itself is small. What grows on the system drive is the backups, because they are saved inside the SparkBox folder. Your media already lives on the big drive. So send the backups to /volume3 instead. SparkBox keeps running the whole time: 1. sudo mkdir -p /volume3/sparkbox-backups 2. sudo sparkbox backup --dest /volume3/sparkbox-backups That writes a sparkbox-full-<date.tar.gz file there. It is not encrypted (it holds your app passwords), so keep that folder private. Run step 2 whenever you want another copy. If you turned on scheduled backups in the dashboard, those still save on the system drive (the last 4 by default). To keep fewer, add /classic-visit to the end of your SparkBox dashboard address to open the classic layout once (your usual dashboard stays your default), then Settings → Scheduled Backups → "Keep last" → 1 or 2 → Save Schedule. Older ones are deleted after each run. One check so we can see what is actually filling the drive: run sudo du -sh /opt/sparkbox/ | sort -h | tail -5 and paste the output here.