Transferring NTFS files

[Shadow_13]

First off, please forgive me, I'm a bit inexperienced and very new to a lot of this. I'd consider myself pretty savy on Windows, but learning a lot about virtualization and other operating systems just now really.

I have my Proxmox set up and fully functioning. I have set up a 3x12tb raidz1 array (yes I'm aware that raidz2 is better for that amount of storage, but I will be doing raidz1 for now.) I have an 8TB drive with media and files on it that I need to get transferred onto the 3x12tb array.

I have been trying to do this all day and am at my wits end trying to figure it out. I have successfully mounted the 8TB disk, but using ntfs-3g. Using some instructions I found, I mounted it to my array, which is called /media/. So when I cd into /media/ I am able to see the files/folders from the 8TB disk.

How do I go about transferring the files from the 8TB disk to the new 3x12tb array? I have the disk installed in the same system, as I figured this would be the fastest way to transfer the data since there's close to 6-7tb on the drive already. Can someone help guide me through how to get this done correctly?

 

[Stefan_R]

Mounting a disk is like creating a drive letter for it in Windows. So to transfer your files, mount the disk in a different location than your array, and simple do cp -r /old/disk/mount/point/* /array/mount/point/. Though for several TB of data it is probably better to use rsync: rsync -avh --progress /old/disk/mount/point/ /array/mount/point/

The main question however should be how you plan on making that data accessible to your VMs. It might be better to copy the data directly into the VM which will use it.