# Move Sonarr install to external Drive

**URL:** https://dietpi.com/forum/t/move-sonarr-install-to-external-drive/4865
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [19 January 2021 00:30 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/move-sonarr-install-to-external-drive/4865 "2021-01-19T00:30:23Z")
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### Author: ![Doctorbeefy](https://dietpi.com/forum/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Doctorbeefy](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Doctorbeefy)
#### Post date: [19 January 2021 00:30 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/move-sonarr-install-to-external-drive/4865/1 "2021-01-19T00:30:23Z")

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Is it possible to move Sonarr’s install from my SD card to the HDD? The reason I ask is it looks like v3 is giving some I/O errors on launch (After I refresh the webpanel a few times in my browser it loads) see errors below and the logs from each error:

 ![Screen Shot 2021-01-18 at 7.12.19 PM.png](https://dietpi.com/forum/uploads/default/original/2X/0/05821f6e6e9432347fcd2c2451e6de424f2d9203.png)  
 ![Screen Shot 2021-01-18 at 7.15.00 PM.png](https://dietpi.com/forum/uploads/default/original/2X/e/ea0a8ef539c7342d68a745bf86c5e49081e27ebc.png)  
[https://pastebin.com/fq1ad37L](https://pastebin.com/fq1ad37L)

[https://pastebin.com/SFC8rznD](https://pastebin.com/SFC8rznD)

Full logs incase asked:

[https://pastebin.com/SFAFczwL](https://pastebin.com/SFAFczwL)

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### Author: ![Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/user_avatar/dietpi.com/joulinar/32/57_2.png) [@Joulinar](https://dietpi.com/forum/u/Joulinar)
#### Post date: [19 January 2021 09:42 UTC](https://dietpi.com/forum/t/move-sonarr-install-to-external-drive/4865/2 "2021-01-19T09:42:49Z")

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Hi,

best to my knowledge, updating to Sonarr v3 will overwrite entire DietPi configuration and move you into stock Sonarr setup. New Sonarr config folder is located at /var/lib/sonarr now and not at /mnt/dietpi\_userdata/sonarr anymore. Therefore you would need to move that folder to your HDD and create a sym link to the new location or you are going to adjust Sonarr service and change the location. That’s the ExecStart option -data=/var/lib/sonarr to be adjusted once you moved the folder

```nohighlight
ExecStart=/usr/bin/mono --debug /usr/lib/sonarr/bin/Sonarr.exe -nobrowser -data=/var/lib/sonarr

```