Dear All,

i have a problem,

 

i have my mac mini connected to my Drobo 4 Bay using Firewire, the Drobo has run its cours and i decided to upgrade to a Nas,

now that i have successfully built my Unraid and its running the Latest OS (unRAID Server version 5.0-rc11) which i find is stable,

i would like to transfer all my movies folders 1.2TB and TV Shows 1.5 TB to my new unraid.

 

i have tried copying in finder to my new folder i called Movies and TV Shows on my Media Share in the Unriad and its extremely slow and it ejects the unraid after 30 mins and my transfer fails.

 

just for your information i have my unraid and Mac mini connected to a 16 Port GIGABIT Network Switch

 

and i have managed to set a fix ip on my Unraid to 192.168.1.200

 

please please please help me,

 

there is no use of my unraid if dont manage to transfer my files and folders safely

 

i really need to help and advise on what and how to do it

 

Regards,

 

Ammar

A couple questions: Do you have a cache drive? What network protocol are you using? AFP? SMB? NFS?

A couple questions: Do you have a cache drive? What network protocol are you using? AFP? SMB? NFS?

 

 

yes im using AFP (but i can change it what is the best to choose?)

 

and yes i do have a chache Drive its a 128GB Kingston SSD

 

 

  With your desire to move that much data, and with the much smaller cache drive you have, I would suggest turning off the cache drive first for the user shares... just till you have completed moving everything over.

 

  This will make the process slow compared to what the system will be able to normally do with the cache drive.  It will however not cause any problems with the filling of the cache drive, since it will be going to the protected shares directly... assuming you do have a parity drive already enabled on your array.

 

  You could also do a test of only a few movie / TV files to make sure everything works as you would expect, BEFORE trying to move everything.  You may also want to select a few files or directories at a time such as alphabetically.  This way if there is a problem with the process stopping, it will be MUCH easier to figure out what to do next to continue the process.

 

  What I do when making large moves of data like that is only COPY the files over, leaving the original files on the original source drives.  Then I run a program to verify ALL files that were copied to make sure they are really the same.  This also would be a good reason to disable a cache drive before the copy process to make sure that when I do a verification, that the files are actually in the final storage location on the user shares with parity protection.  In Windows I use a program called FreeFileSync http://sourceforge.net/projects/freefilesync/  I am not sure if it will run with Apple or not...  but there are similar programs available. 

 

  I just like to make sure I have good copies before relying on a new data storage method.  This also will make sure that problems are caught, before any data is lost.  I have had bad network cards and network switches I found using this process, where I would otherwise have lost many terabytes of data over the years!

 

  Perhaps some may feel I am a bit over doing it, but I would really rather NOT finding out years later that my only remaining copies of my home movies is bad and no longer usable.  Other things, though upsetting can at least be replaced.