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Title: Moving files from Volume_1 to Volume_2
Post by: robertmark68 on February 26, 2009, 08:26:04 AM

Hello All

i have a question regarding my beloved DNS-323.

I've been using this thing with (2) 250GB Hard Drives for more than a couple years now.

Earlier this week i decided to upgrade one of the drives to a Seagate 1TB.

Naturally one of the 250's is out of a job.  In anticipation of the pending upgrade I moved ALL the files to ONE of the drives and the overflow to a desktop machine.

The new hard drive arrived and i removed the a newly emptied empty 250 and replaced it with the new 1TB.  The 323 recognized and formatted the drive accordingly.  I then started the process of moving 250GB+ media files onto the new drive.

The way i do this is map both volume 1 and 2 on a desktop machine AND then open two explorer windows and drag and drop the files.

It occurred to me that this seems a very SLOW and clumsy way to do this; essentially having a PC be the middle man between two drives in the SAME NAS!  Is there an application or some method of having the files go directly from one to the other without having to traverse cat 5 cable?

Sorry if this is a stupid question but it seems to me 7.0MB/sec xfer rates are ridiculously slow.

Robert
Otter River, Massachusetts

Title: Re: Moving files from Volume_1 to Volume_2
Post by: talonted on February 26, 2009, 08:36:54 AM

Use a Scheduled Download to move the files from one volume to the other without having to go through your pc.  The files will transfer much faster.

Title: Re: Moving files from Volume_1 to Volume_2
Post by: robertmark68 on February 26, 2009, 08:51:59 AM

Quote from: talonted on February 26, 2009, 08:36:54 AM

Use a Scheduled Download to move the files from one volume to the other without having to go through your pc.  The files will transfer much faster.

I am sorry for being a tad ignorant here but is that a feature of the admin utility? i can't seem to find that.

Title: Re: Moving files from Volume_1 to Volume_2
Post by: robertmark68 on February 26, 2009, 08:57:44 AM

Quote from: talonted on February 26, 2009, 08:36:54 AM

Use a Scheduled Download to move the files from one volume to the other without having to go through your pc.  The files will transfer much faster.

Nevermind!!! I'm an idiot!!  Found it  ;)

Title: Re: Moving files from Volume_1 to Volume_2
Post by: robertmark68 on February 26, 2009, 09:18:17 AM

Thanks!

This will do the job.  That said, it would be nice to have a little 'file manager' like application that could allow you to copy or move files or folders between drives.

maybe something to think about for firmware version 1.07?

R

Title: Re: Moving files from Volume_1 to Volume_2
Post by: edifonzo on February 26, 2009, 10:51:46 AM

What is the scheduled download?

Can it help me out?

Right now I am looking for a way (other than ffp) to copy the entire Volume_1 over to Volume_2 on daily or weekly basis. To save time I would like only changes to be copied over after the first copy.

Anyone try this?

Thanks

Title: Re: Moving files from Volume_1 to Volume_2
Post by: mamurao on March 12, 2009, 08:41:47 AM

You can use download scheduler to move "files or folders " from one volume to another or from one folder to another folder on the same volume. Go into the download portion via GUI