Ok, good. Then I think you will want to load up the old drive again and create a backup of your services that you want to copy over (note that Knots will still need to do the IBD, though – StartOS doesn’t backup the blockchain data since it is huge)
The technical part is that it says the backup drive should use EXT4 and not FAT32 or EXFAT. For that, you can boot into the Linux live USB drive, and use gparted to delete any partitions on the drive you will use for making a backup (be careful to pick the correct drive, so you don’t accidentally delete your node). Then create a new EXT4 partition and apply the changes.
Once you have a backup drive with an EXT4 partition on it, you can then load up the old drive again and create a backup of all the services that didn’t transfer over. Let me know if you need help getting to this point.
I Had Bitcoin core come over from my old setup which had already sync the blockchain . and bitcoin core came over with the transfer, and is syncing from where it stopped before I shut it down, so the should be synced soon ,
Cool, so you should be able to just back up the other services you need to transfer over. The other option is to just reconfigure them from scratch on the new drive, but that may be more work than doing the backup/restore, depending on how complex they are.
Had to do another transfer to keep block chain data , also uninstalled some apps like file browser, sync thing and Nextcloud to make transfers better, now getting this error below
In Linux, “OS error 5” indicates a file I/O error, usually related to hardware issues with storage devices themselves, but can sometimes also be caused by a problem with adapters or cables. It is a bit different than your last error (which was specifically a write error), but both can point to problems with the storage device.
ok, I will reach out to that team,
when doing a restore from a Restore from backup, will all data be restored , its refer to as Disaster Recovery, not sure why
thanks
In most cases, restoring from a backup restores the data as well. I know that Core and Knots, however, do not restore the blockchain data, due to its size. For details on particular services and what data is included in the backup, the Start9 team will know about that in more detail. I’ve restored a couple of services from backups just to test the process, but no experience beyond that.
The two errors indicate a hardware problem. Even though I mentioned that a cable could be the cause, that is usually not the case – in my experience it is typically the drive itself that is going bad.
It is your question about why a file from a deleted service is being copied during the Transfer step, that I think the Start9 folks will be able to answer better, since they have more inside knowledge of how that process works under the hood.
Paul, I was able to get my transfer completed. Try the new cable and it went through fine now I’m having an issue with the bitcoin knots coming back online or getting it reloaded. Any ideas on how to get the bitcoin knots started again. Core is up and running and up-to-date. The issue I have is that bitcoin knot is showing in the install stage, but I cannot get it to install try using the developer tool not able to reinstall it.
I saw your post on the Start9 forum – sounds like enabling dev features in StartOS isn’t revealing the Reinstall button. I’ll be interested to see what they tell you over there, but if you are impatient about getting your server back up and running, you could uninstall Core, and then install Knots. The drawback with this method is that it will go through the IBD again (so probably a day to finish that, depending on your specs).
If you go that route, be sure to shut down any services which depend on Knots. Wait for the IBD to complete, and then before starting the other services, first open their Configuration page and click Save. If you forget this step, then the other services that depend on Knots will get stuck in a restart loop (because the RPC authentication changes when you uninstall Core/Knots and then install it again)
Depending on your technical expertise, you might be able to modify the process outlined here for copying the blockchain database from one server to another. Since you don’t have two Start9 servers, you would have to modify it so that you copy the blockchain data from your server to another computer, uninstall Core, install Knots, and then copy the blochain data from the other computer back to your server. Ideally, the “other computer” in this setup should be running Linux (to avoid issues with various properties like permissions and ownership)
