Is there a quick, easy way?

 

(Rather than copying from my windows client - which I assume would result in a 24 hour copy cycle over the network, considering the large files I am moving)

 

Thanks!

Rsync will do it without going over the network but there is a bit of learning and you should be a bit familiar with Putty (or another SSH client) to login and type commands and make a small script. Good to know that rsync isn’t very forgiving, if you tell it to do crap it will do that happily. 

 

You can also use Midnight Commander (MC) that is the inbuilt file manager. It has a simple GUI but you still need to use an SSH client.

 

If you aren’t familiar with CLI (Command Line Interface) at all, stay with Windows unless this is a task you intend to do frequently.

I have ssh, not afraid of using it.  MC isn't super friendly if I recall...

 

But in the end what should I do exactly?  Use MC from within a ssh session to copy from one share to another?  Any tricks?

 

Thanks

If you're fine with the ssh prompt, just use mv instead of mc.

I have ssh, not afraid of using it.  MC isn't super friendly if I recall...

 

But in the end what should I do exactly?  Use MC from within a ssh session to copy from one share to another?  Any tricks?

 

Thanks

You could use the Dolphin docker app.  It would be close to the speed of mc / rsync, but give you an interface thats familiar to any windows user.

Well I haven't yet played with Dockers.  I normally would just go do that but I was hoping to start my copy tonight.  (and not play around with Docker installation/config for an hour)

Since you said they are on the same disk, just use MC to find the files on the disk in one MC pane, and move them to the other folder on the same disk in the other MC pane. It will be almost instantaneous moving files on the same disk.

Whatever you do, don't have a /mnt/disk? on one side and /mnt/user/? on the other pane. As long as both panes have /mnt/disk?/ you can move stuff around with no issues, and like trurl said, if you are operating with the same /mnt/disk number on both sides, the move will be practically instant.