Comments on: How to move applications from one volume to another on Synology

By: Ilias K

Ilias K — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:42:05 +0000

This was a VERY helpful post. I strugled for a few days with this. In DSM 7 there are multiple folders to move/copy between volumes, it’s not just @appstore. There is also @appdata, @apphome, @appconf and @apptemp. The find/grep above as you’ve written it will show them.
Also, if you hard drive crashes and turns to read-only, you cannot mv but you need to copy, recurse and preserve attributes (so use “cp -a /volume1/@appstore/* /volume2/@appstore/”, “cp -a /volume1/@appdata/* /volume2/@appdata/”, etc). Also for several packages, there are symbolic links within the @appstore package folder, so make sure you update those as well (i.e. @appstore/SurveillanceStation/@surveillance -> /volume1/@surveillance, docker, can’t remember what else).

By: Ben J

Ben J — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:01:47 +0000

Some Apps I’ve found have a setting.conf file that needs to be manually altered.

It can be found here in the volume @appstore folder (where X = your volume number )
/volumeX/\@appstore/*/etc/setting.conf

Modify it so it is pointing to the correct Volume otherwise the app wont start.

{“conf_repo_volume_path”:”/volumeX”}

By: Romain

Romain — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 12:34:17 +0000

Hi,
Just attempted this scenario, GREAT !
But afterwards, some apps still refused to execute.
Found-out that there are some additional simlinks in /usr/local/ :

find /usr/local/ -type l -ls | grep volume
and update simlink with the ln -sfn command.

Enjoy !

By: Luca

Luca — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:14:14 +0000

In reply to Jarkko. Hi Jarkko, thanks for the feedback. Strange, are you sure that you stopped the Drive application before moving it? Do you have an error message?

By: Luca

Luca — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:10:32 +0000

In reply to Stefano Dall'Olio. Hi Stefano, thank you for sharing it!

By: Stefano Dall'Olio

Stefano Dall'Olio — Sat, 14 Sep 2019 16:27:43 +0000

Hello, I made this simple bash script to speedup the process…
simply write those commands in a file and then:
chmod +x filename
./filename

— script —

#!/bin/bash

# implement line command parameters here
VOLSRC=2
VOLDST=1

# implement some controls here; source exists and has apps, dest exists, etc
echo -e “\n– Move Apps from ‘/volume${VOLSRC}’ to ‘/volume${VOLDST}’ –”
# mv /volume${VOLSRC}/\@appstore /volume${VOLDST}/

echo -e “\n– App Symlink Status –”
find /var/packages/ -type l -ls | grep volume${VOLSRC}

echo -e “\n”
for app in /volume${VOLDST}/\@appstore/*; do
app=$(basename ${app})
# ln -sfn /volume2/@appstore/VPNCenter /var/packages/VPNCenter/target
echo “==> ln -sfn /volume${VOLDST}/\@appstore/${app} /var/packages/${app}/target”
ln -sfn /volume${VOLDST}/\@appstore/${app} /var/packages/${app}/target
done

echo -e “\n– App Symlink Result –”
find /var/packages/ -type l -ls | grep volume${VOLDST}

By: Jarkko

Jarkko — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 07:05:01 +0000

Luca, you are the saviour. Synology could not provide me the instructions how to move apps from one volume to another, but your guide was just perfect. I have one more issue, the Drive Server is still somehow in old volume so i can;t remove the old volume 1 even there are no links or anything visible. Do you have any idea what could be hanging still and how to remove the last obstacle? thanks heaps.

By: Aliaksei

Aliaksei — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:34:08 +0000

Worked perfectly – many thanks!

By: Luca

Luca — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 09:02:55 +0000

In reply to Mark. Hi Mark, glad to hear this and thanks for the feedback :)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:49:26 +0000

Very much appreciated this article after one of my 2 volumes crashed – unfortunately I didn’t have a RAID setup so had to copy all data from one to another disk, and then the changing of these links saved me a whole lot of pain with the apps.