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Greyhole UI App Transition Guide (view source)
Revision as of 00:54, 10 January 2017
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This guide will provide a step by step transition from the manual Greyhole installation to using the [https://www.amahi.org/apps/greyhole-ui Greyhole UI] application for Amahi 7or greater. Going forward, this is the preferred method of installing Greyhole.
== Disclaimer ==
While following this guide should not result in any data loss, we cannot guarantee that it won't cause any problems with your HDA. <span style="color:red">'''Please proceed with caution as you follow this guide.!'''</span>
The [https://www.amahi.org/apps/greyhole-ui Greyhole UI] application does not support previous manual Greyhole installations, meaning all your current Greyhole settings will be overwritten. You will have to reconfigure it using the dashboard.
'''NOTE:''' If you would still like to setup your Greyhole pool manually, please see [[Amahi_Create_Manual_Greyhole_Setup|Manual Greyhole Setup]].
== Backup Settings ==
== Adding drives ==
If you need to add additional drives to your HDA for Greyhole, please follow the [[Adding_a_second_hard_drive_to_your_HDA|adding a second hard drive]] guidancefor Amahi 7. The Amahi [https://www.amahi.org/apps/disk-wizard Disk Wizard] (in''development'') application will provide provides a Dashboard UI for the this process in Amahi 8 or greater '''ONLY'''. If you have completed the addition of the drive via disk wizard you then need to add the drive to the futurestorage pool. Once that has been completed run fsck.To balance the data among old and new drives you should first run the following command to clean up trash greyhole -a Then run this command to balance the drives data. greyhole -l
== Install Application ==
== Additional Settings ==
There are limited settings configured using the [https://www.amahi.org/apps/greyhole-ui Greyhole UI] application. If you have additional settings you configured manually in the past, see [[Greyhole#Greyhole_Advanced_Options|Greyhole Advanced Options]] for guidance on adding those to Greyhole.
== Tips and Best Practices ==
Refer to [[Greyhole_Tips|Greyhole Tips]] for additional guidance.
== Troubleshooting ==
If you have any problems, please submit a [https://bugs.amahi.org bug report] or stop by the Amahi IRC channel [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=amahi #amahi] for real-time assistance.
