September 9, 201312 yr The way to get around the time out issue is to create the container on a Windows box and then just copy it onto the unRAID drive where it will live. Stephen Blimey I'd never have thought to try to copy a multi-TB single file across my network before....
September 9, 201312 yr Creating elsewhere and then moving is certainly an option. The other option is to create it on the unRAID server itself. Plus, you can choose to mount it in there and access remotely.
September 10, 201312 yr Blimey I'd never have thought to try to copy a multi-TB single file across my network before.... I do it all the time with encrypted drive images.
September 12, 201312 yr The way to get around the time out issue is to create the container on a Windows box and then just copy it onto the unRAID drive where it will live. Stephen Blimey I'd never have thought to try to copy a multi-TB single file across my network before.... Yup, it works, you'll be more limited by the speed of writing to the RAID array than the LAN (assuming you have a giga bit LAN). If you have 7200 RPM drives you can probably write at about 108GB/hour, so this might take a day... Regards, Stephen
September 12, 201312 yr The way to get around the time out issue is to create the container on a Windows box and then just copy it onto the unRAID drive where it will live. Stephen Blimey I'd never have thought to try to copy a multi-TB single file across my network before.... Just keep in mind that you need to have a single disk with enough free space. Unraid will not (can not) split files across disks. Best to copy to a disk share anyway if you truly are copying a multi-TB file.
September 13, 201312 yr Just keep in mind that you need to have a single disk with enough free space. Unraid will not (can not) split files across disks. Best to copy to a disk share anyway if you truly are copying a multi-TB file. Gosh limited to "just" a 2TB encrypted drive/file, what will I do?
September 13, 201312 yr Just keep in mind that you need to have a single disk with enough free space. Unraid will not (can not) split files across disks. Best to copy to a disk share anyway if you truly are copying a multi-TB file. Gosh limited to "just" a 2TB encrypted drive/file, what will I do? Less than 2T on 2T drive.
October 14, 201312 yr Yup, it works, you'll be more limited by the speed of writing to the RAID array than the LAN (assuming you have a giga bit LAN). If you have 7200 RPM drives you can probably write at about 108GB/hour, so this might take a day... Regards, Stephen Now it comes to the point where I actually have a 2TB-ish TC file from Windows GUI it barfs copying across my network. Options? It is like it is waiting for a 2TB file to be created on the Unraid side and times out waiting for that to happen. C:\Windows\system32>"D:\Program Files (x86)\Robocopy\ROBOCOPY" h:\TC \\MYUNRAID\disk7\Misc /zb /s /v ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows :: Version XP010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Started : Mon Oct 14 15:34:24 2013 Source : h:\TC\ Dest : \\MYUNRAID\disk7\Misc\ Files : *.* Options : *.* /V /S /COPY:DAT /ZB /R:1000000 /W:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 h:\TC\ *EXTRA File 488.2 g ABC *EXTRA File 350.0 g DLD *EXTRA File 488.2 g XYZ *EXTRA File 500.0 g YYZ 0.0% New File 1862.0 g YYZ.dat 2013/10/14 15:36:28 ERROR 32 (0x00000020) Copying File h:\TC\YYZ.dat The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. Waiting 30 seconds... Retrying... 0.0% New File 1862.0 g YYZ.dat
October 14, 201312 yr while it would be nice to know how to copy very large files directly from Windows to the Unraid, I decided to mount the drive in a USB caddy and plug it in directly to the server and rsync from there. Frees up my local PC from the activity too.
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