What's your way of handling/transferring files?

[skank]

I was wondering how you guys handle/copy your files say from a windows pc to your unraid server.

Currently i'm doing that by going to Network place (in windows vista), there i copy and paste things using teracopy

Do you guys use a telenet connection (say with puty) to copy things?

Also to organize maps and stuff... how do you guys do this?

[prostuff1]

Do you guys use a telenet connection (say with puty) to copy things?

If it is the initial copy then I try to do it with the drive with data on it in the server.  Using unMenu to mount the drive and the Midnight Commander to move the files were I want them.

 

If the initial transfer is complete and it is just for daily copying to and from then I just use the smb mounts.

 

Also to organize maps and stuff... how do you guys do this?

Not quite sure what you mean by "maps" but assuming you mean the shares.  I create a share for each individual "category" where I will store files. Something like "Movies", "TV Shows", "Anime", "Backups", etc.

[skank]

Do you guys use a telenet connection (say with puty) to copy things?

If it is the initial copy then I try to do it with the drive with data on it in the server.  Using unMenu to mount the drive and the Midnight Commander to move the files were I want them.

 

If the initial transfer is complete and it is just for daily copying to and from then I just use the smb mounts.

 

Also to organize maps and stuff... how do you guys do this?

Not quite sure what you mean by "maps" but assuming you mean the shares.  I create a share for each individual "category" where I will store files. Something like "Movies", "TV Shows", "Anime", "Backups", etc.

 

This is all through a telnet session (using midnight commander)

With maps, i mean folders...

You do this with windows explorer or?

[prostuff1]

This is all through a telnet session (using midnight commander)

For the initial transfer yes.  I use unMenu to mount the drive, which can be done from the web browser.  From there I open a telnet session, start 'screen', and then midnight commander.

 

With maps, i mean folders...

You do this with windows explorer or?

OK, just wanted to make sure I was thinking the same thing you were.

 

Since I am on a Mac I use Finder, but it is essentially the same thing as Explorer.

[skank]

so i just use windows explorer, go to the network place, then i can edit the maps/ organize things and even copy and paste right?

[Spectrum]

Sounds like Prostuff and I do things pretty similarly; guess I'm in good company 

 

If I have a drive with large amounts of data (like initial seeding of an array) I'll take the server down and put the drive in then manually mount the drive and copy stuff over using cp.  I've tried MC and I just can't make myself like it, I prefer the command line.  One thing I noticed when I set up my first array (4.5.6) is that files that have Unicode characters in their names (Martin Böttcher - Melodie Für Jessica) got really messed up.  The files in question were on an NTFS drive and I played around a bit and came up with the following:

• Mounting an NTFS drive and copying data using cp messes up Unicode filenames.
  
• Mounting an NTFS drive and copying data using MC messes up Unicode filenames.
  
• Copying files from a Windows machine across the network to an SMB share preserves Unicode filenames.
  

I ended up copying with cp and letting the filenames get trashed, then ran an md5deep scan on the source files and the destination files, diffed the files, then renamed the offenders.  Not ideal but it worked.

 

If I just have day to day copy to/from the server, I use the user shares for access and do things across the network.

 

When I set up my array I created all my shares through the web interface and got things organized on my drives how I like and now if I want to add a new folder inside a current share I'll usually just do it through explorer.  ie open \\tower\share then create a new folder so I end up with \\tower\share\new_folder.

 

If I need to do a large reorg (haven't had to yet, but I can see one coming) I'll probably telnet in and open a screen session then move stuff around using command line.

 

And Copy/Paste work fine.

[lionelhutz]

I just use Internet Explorer. Terracopy would be an even better application. I've never mapped a drive on my HTPC, I just use the //MediaServer location.

 

Peter

[skank]

how do you make/arrange folders using internet explorer?