application – Costigator https://costigator.com Tech Passion Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:34:58 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 How to move applications from one volume to another on Synology https://costigator.com/uncategorised/how-to-move-applications-from-one-volume-to-another-on-synology/ https://costigator.com/uncategorised/how-to-move-applications-from-one-volume-to-another-on-synology/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2016 14:21:31 +0000 http://costigator.com/?p=844 Today I want show you a solution to move Synology applications from one volume to another. In my case, I will move it from Volume 1 to Volume 2.

Preparation

First of all you need to stop all the applications manually (open the application manager in the DSM). After this connect to your synology over SSH (enable it if not done yet).

Migration

Now we move all the applications from Volume 1 to the new Volume (in my case Volume 2):

mv /volume1/@appstore/* /volume2/@appstore/

Then we need to find out which applications have a link to the old volume:

find /var/packages/ -type l -ls | grep volume1

The output, depending on which applications you have installed, should look like this:

4480 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Nov 4 18:39 /var/packages/DownloadStation/target -> /volume1/@appstore/DownloadStation

18333 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 4 18:39 /var/packages/VPNCenter/target -> /volume1/@appstore/VPNCenter

23299 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 4 18:40 /var/packages/DNSServer/target -> /volume1/@appstore/DNSServer

7021 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 4 18:39 /var/packages/VideoStation/target -> /volume1/@appstore/VideoStation

18325 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Nov 4 18:40 /var/packages/MediaServer/target -> /volume1/@appstore/MediaServer

23973 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 4 18:41 /var/packages/CloudStation/target -> /volume1/@appstore/CloudStation

19596 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 4 18:41 /var/packages/AntiVirus/target -> /volume1/@appstore/AntiVirus

23175 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Nov 4 18:38 /var/packages/StorageAnalyzer/target -> /volume1/@appstore/StorageAnalyzer

For each application you need to create a new simbolic link replacing the old one:

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/DownloadStation /var/packages/DownloadStation/target

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/VPNCenter /var/packages/VPNCenter/target

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/DNSServer /var/packages/DNSServer/target

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/VideoStation /var/packages/VideoStation/target

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/MediaServer /var/packages/MediaServer/target

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/CloudStation /var/packages/CloudStation/target

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/AntiVirus /var/packages/AntiVirus/target

ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/StorageAnalyzer /var/packages/StorageAnalyzer/target

To be sure check that now the symbolic links are pointing to the new volume:

find /var/packages/ -type l -ls | grep volume2
The result:
4480 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Nov 5 13:59 /var/packages/DownloadStation/target -> /volume2/@appstore/DownloadStation

6171 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 5 14:01 /var/packages/VPNCenter/target -> /volume2/@appstore/VPNCenter

17675 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 5 14:01 /var/packages/DNSServer/target -> /volume2/@appstore/DNSServer

7021 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 5 14:01 /var/packages/VideoStation/target -> /volume2/@appstore/VideoStation

17850 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Nov 5 14:01 /var/packages/MediaServer/target -> /volume2/@appstore/MediaServer

17857 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Nov 5 14:01 /var/packages/CloudStation/target -> /volume2/@appstore/CloudStation

17986 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Nov 5 14:01 /var/packages/AntiVirus/target -> /volume2/@appstore/AntiVirus

18102 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Nov 5 14:01 /var/packages/StorageAnalyzer/target -> /volume2/@appstore/StorageAnalyzer

Conclusion

The migration is done and you can start the applications again. They should work as normal 😉

 

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