September 8, 20169 yr Hi All, I've been playing with unRAID on a C2550 server having also used freenas a little bit as well. I might post about my experience separately but I wanted to share something about what I am doing right now. I have a Synology NAS (arm based) which is sitting next to the unRAID server and on a high quality 24port gigabit switch. I wanted to transfer a directory of DVD ISOs (archive backups of my DVD collection) from the NAS to the unRAID. I firstly used Unassigned Devices to do a SMB mount and copy, which worked surprisingly well (although I think I need to report a bug for when you accidentally put a preceding "\" in the source share path). But I also saw the guidance about using tar and netcat, so I thought I would give it a go. I also realised that ISOs are likely to contain compressible data so I though to give that a go as well. GZIP compression worked but max'ed out the CPU on the Synology, with a bit of interesting research I found that apparently lzop is supposed to be faster and more efficient than gzip, but my synology didn't have lzop available, even with optware/ipkg. I install lzop using an Arch linux package for ARM and it worked as a simple binary (using '--use-compress-program=/opt/bin/lzop'). But it seems that any compression is too much for the Synology and so I have resorted back to simple netcat. One change I had to make was to use netcat at the synology end as well because a simple /dev/tcp/ip/port doesn't work on that kernel version. The command that works best for me is: tar -cf - * | /opt/bin/nc 192.168.11.6 6666 and netcat -l -p 6666 | tar -C ./ -xf - [/img]
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