Hi, I’m trying to migrate my 8 TB node to a new HDD. After several copies using rsync -vaP, I stopped the node and added the --delete option. After one day, it is still copying and deleting files. How long can I wait for it to finish before my node gets banned?
You have tons of time. If you started with a 100% online score you have around a dozen days before you even get suspended (at 60% online)… then you still have weeks more before disqualification.
Yes, I had 100% when stoped the node, but I’ve received several emails warning me about suspension, and I don’t want to lose all the time I’ve invested.
Then you may start the original node back with a reduced allocation below the used space, this would prevent the node from receiving more data, while you are syncing.
Then run rsync -vaP one more time, then stop the node and run rsync -vaP --delete, this time it should be much shorter.