Moving content from internal HD to NAS

[TankBottom]

As Im setting up my first NAS, I want to transfer all data from internal 2TB HD to NAS. Sounds easier than it is. So far I have tried the following...

1) copy data with FTP over local gigabit network. Max speed: 4 KBps. Takes forever and the connection is very unstable. With Samba, some 7-9 MB/S and connection is very unstable. Takes forever.

2) plug in USB drive to NMT, copy content. Takes forever.

3) add lundftpd to NMT in order to copy data from NMT to USB using FXP. No go, also NMT crashes frequently (network connection hangs). Uninstall lundftpd.

4) plug-in NMT's HD to PC with SATA-USB -adapter. Windows fails to see the drive, although disk management sees it. After attaching a drive letter to the drive its visible in the explorer... but since I was stupid enough to install the NMT apps to NMT hard drive, the disk has multiple partitions and I cant access the one with all the data.

Attaching the HD with SATA-USB adapter straight to the (free)NAS and mounting it I havent tried... but testing the method with another USB drive gave me about the same speed than Samba (7-9 MB/S average), it hardly is a winning bet...

Im fresh out of ideas here. Is there any way that I can move the data from NMT to NAS in reasonable speed?

[accident]

I start to laugh when these conversations hit the 2-3 day mark because I know if you just slow copied it, you'd be done in 2-3 days so be careful you don't overplan and take more time trying to find a fast solution. the good part is once it's done, it's done and you don't need to copy again.

You kind of left out what nas you have so I have no clue what options you even could do.. so I'll be a little generic here..

Fastest:

get the drive out of the pch and sata or esata connect to another device/computer. If that's windows then you need an ext2 driver installed for it to read the linux formatted drive. OR you need to linux boot the pc to not be in windows for the copy. it's pretty fast to download a livecd or liveusb of linux, boot and do your thing.. of course no windows/normal pc during the copy.

not so fast:

If you have to do it over network from the pch it's going to take some time.. it's fastest to go directly from the pch to the nas. most nas's have a backup option where you could tell it to ftp copy the data directly from the pch and as long as the pch and nas stay on, the copy will eventually finish. no computer needed, you can move your laptop around, take it to work, whatever you need and the copy will just keep on keeping on. backups tend to not be full speed of the nas but then again the pch will slow it down more so not a biggy here.

[TankBottom]

(04-05-2012 06:29 AM)accident Wrote:  don't overplan and take more time trying to find a fast solution.

You sir definitely got a point here

I propably give this ext2-thing a try. Thanks for quick reply!

[Willem53]

At 7-9MB/s the connection should be stable... if not... you better sort that out or playback from NAS will not be a good choice...
At 7MB/s it will take you 3 days....

[TankBottom]

Found this software called Ext2Explore. Very easy to use.

Copying now. All I need now is a good book and lots of coffee