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Title: Moving files between volumes
Post by: BlackBishop64 on February 15, 2012, 02:32:43 PM

Hi,

I need to move 100GB from vol1 to vol2, do you know how to transfer internally without downloading to PC and uploading again?

I've tried with "Web file server" but it crash after some minutes and I have to reboot the nas.

Thank you !

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: albert on February 15, 2012, 05:35:54 PM

Remote into your NAS via telnet/ssh and use the mv <source> <target> & command, replace <source>/<target> will the actual location. The ampersand (&) at the end will launch it in the background. In another word, there's no need to maintain a active remote session and you can off your PC.

FYI, I and tried and timed it before, moving 100GB of data across volume took around an hour.

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: BlackBishop64 on February 16, 2012, 12:11:07 AM

Quote from: albert on February 15, 2012, 05:35:54 PM

Remote into your NAS via telnet/ssh and use ...

I've tried to remote into my nas but I get the message "Connection refused", I've tried adding a rule in firewall and later turning it off without success. Do I need to configure something at nas to allow remote telnet?

Thank you!

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: albert on February 16, 2012, 12:33:41 AM

By default, DNS-320 doesn't have feature to remote shell so you have to first install FFP. I will not go into details on how to install as it has been asked on many occasion already.

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: BlackBishop64 on February 16, 2012, 12:35:16 AM

I will have a look, thank you very much

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: albert on February 16, 2012, 12:37:14 AM

You're most welcome. ;-)

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: JohnSmith on February 16, 2012, 12:42:36 AM

Web File Server should be able to do it for you.  It "goes away" and appears to be locked up, but if you leave it alone it eventually gets the job done.  Just don't close the window, but minimize it if you want.  It does take time to get the data over.  You can actually open up Windows Explorer and see the files appear live if you open up the destination folder if you don't think it's actually working.

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: cable2 on February 16, 2012, 08:23:40 AM

Hi,
How about just using the local backup feature?

Title: Re: Moving files between volumes
Post by: BlackBishop64 on February 16, 2012, 11:49:21 PM

Quote from: JohnSmith on February 16, 2012, 12:42:36 AM

Web File Server should be able to do it for you.  It "goes away" and appears to be locked up, but if you leave it alone it eventually gets the job done.  Just don't close the window, but minimize it if you want.  It does take time to get the data over.  You can actually open up Windows Explorer and see the files appear live if you open up the destination folder if you don't think it's actually working.

Thank you John, I've finally used the "right-click" method and it worked well.