I need to copy a fair amount of files from one unRAID machine to a new one. Both machines should be running during this process.

 

What I tried so far, with no luck, is:

 

 

1.) SCP

 

cd /mnt/user/Projects/

scp -p -r itsme@Tower1:/mnt/user/Projects/ .

 

>>SCP is not installed.

 

 

2.) MOUNT/CP

 

mkdir /mnt/disk1/tmp

mount -t smbfs -o username=itsme,password=********,umask=000 //192.168.178.20/Projects /mnt/disk1/tmp

(as an alternative: mount -t smbfs -o user=itsme,password=******** //192.168.178.20/Projects /mnt/disk1/tmp)

 

>>mount error 13 = Permission denied

>>Refer to the mount.cifs( manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

 

3.) CP - bad idea, I know

 

cd /mnt/user/Projects/

cp -r -p itsme@Tower1:/mnt/user/Projects/ .

 

 

Step two worked for copying files from two Buffalo Terastations but not for the unRAID machine.

 

Any idea? I should mention that userid and password are identical on both machines currently. So I couldn't find a real reason why permission was denied ...

 

Thanks

Harald

 

 

Did you try "-t cifs" instead of "-t smbfs"?

 

4.4 replaces smbfs with cifs.

Did you try "-t cifs" instead of "-t smbfs"?

 

4.4 replaces smbfs with cifs.

 

yes, that worked.

 

Thanks a lot.

Harald

 

 

 

 

Can someone who knows what they are doing edit the follwing wiki:

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Transferring_Files_from_a_Network_Share_to_unRAID

 

with the information from this thread.  Took me an hour to figure out what the problem was (mainly because it was a very late hour). 

 

 

You are probably best placed to do it since your fresh to the problem

i'm happy to do it, but frankly, someone with real linux knowledge shoudl be the one writing it.  While I run linux as my desktop OS, I pretty much have to google every command outside cp, mv, and ls. 

I currently have an unRAID system which I want to transfer all my files (4TB) to a small NAS system my friend built.  I have each system hooked up to a small linksys  10/100 switch and I managed to mount the NAS and began the transfer using 'rsync'.  It begins by transferring movies around 80MB/s but always slows down to 10MB/s.  Did I do something wrong or is there a way to increase the transfer speeds?

 

Thanks

You're maxing out your network. Your 100 mb (100 megabits/sec) network allows a theoretical maximum transfer of 12.5 MB/s (12.5 Megabytes/sec) which is 100 mb/s (8 bits per byte); so you getting 10 MB/s (80 megabits per second) is the best you can hope for.

 

To get faster speeds, you need to use Gigabit networking equipment which includes all network cards, network routers, and even the network cables.