What would be the most efficient way to transfer data from my Ubuntu server to my unRAID server? Both machines are headless and on my LAN. 

 

I have used rsych over ssh from a laptop on the LAN.  I have also used sftp in mc, again using ssh from a laptop on the LAN.

 

What alternatives would you folks recommend?

thanks

 

 

Not sure exactly what you are trying to copy, or how frequent you need to do it.

 

Easist way is to mount the unRAID drive in Ubuntu.

 

InUbuntu machine, create folder called /mnt/tower... and possibly subfolders matching the unRAID share you want to mount.

 

in Ubuntu, edit your fstab to mount automatically; type:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

 

 

Enter your password, and paste something like this:

 

//192.168.0.201/Media /mnt/tower/media cifs guest,uid=YOURUSERNAME,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
//192.168.0.201/cache /mnt/tower/cache cifs guest,uid=YOURUSERNAME,rw,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0

 

Change the IP above to match your unRaid and the share names, put your Ubuntu username in place of YOURUSERNAME... you will then have your share mounted inside the folders created above. This is assuming you have no security in your unRAID server. I don't security and cannot help if you do.

 

With that, in Ubuntu you can create cron jobs that rsync what you need.

 

I hope this helps.

 

 

Thanks for your reply.  Ubuntu is my download machine and I will be writting to unRAID daily.  What you suggested works very well and has doubled my write speeds.

 

Now I will look into setting up a cron job.

 

cheers!

You know unRAID can do all the download duties in Dockers.... much more efficient. It works like a charm if you have it running on semi-recent hardware.

D510 in my unraid box 

http://ark.intel.com/products/43098/Intel-Atom-Processor-D510-1M-Cache-1_66-GHz

NFS will give you even better speeds then CIFs (which is relatively CPU heavy) for your Atom processor.

the simplest is to enable it for a share then mount it in fstab

192.168.0.100:/mnt/user/Share /mnt/Tower/Share rw,defaults

The only problem I can't immediately help is that NFS has no concept of users and will happily accept the Ubuntu box userids without checking, while unRAID by default only has root and nobody as users

 

AFAIK - depending on what you use to download, the Atom D510 has more than enough oomph to run the downloader

I've used that processor for a while on a DIY NAS before with transmission running to provide torrenting capabilities