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[drkrdglo]

I'm looking to migrate 1TB of data from my DNS-323 to my new Synology box.  My experience with the 323 is that transfer times are super slow when using my computer to move files (like from one volume to another via AFP protocol). I thought Sharepoint would allow me to hook up both drives via USB, but it doesn't seem to be working for me.  Is there any sort of command I can run so that I have the data transferring purely over the network as opposed to having to use my computer as the bridge that copies data between the two NAS?

I also have the problem with file copies failing *all the time* with the 323, so I'm just afraid it will literally take weeks if there's no one to copy directly from one NAS to the other.  Please let me know what you folks think...

[redant2u]

Yes - there is 'n slow transfer rate between DNS's - I'm having the same problem currently transferring data 2.6TB from DNS323 to DNS343 on 1000 LAN via a DGS1216T switch @ ±9.4Mb/s... if there is any help out there please let me know.

[fordem]

Have you considered using the ftp server?

[dosborne]

I've transferred a couple of TB form one DNS323 to another. Sure it took a while (about a day) but I had no issues other than that. Lot sof small files, lots of really large files too.

[drkrdglo]

Have you considered using the ftp server?

Can you elaborate? Do you mean opening up two FTP connections on my mac and FTP transfer from one drive to the other?

[Tank_Killer]

The FTP server of the 323 supports FXP transfers (as of fw1.08) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol I didnt use it as i had never tested FXP on this box and the dns323 is notorious for buggy features.

I transferred 1.5tb over SAMBA to my new synology box.  Took almost 2 days but worked fine.

If you use FXP between the 2 FTP's, post here how well it worked and how long it took to transfer the data.  I would be interested to know if it would survive a large copy operation.

Tank

[fordem]

Can you elaborate? Do you mean opening up two FTP connections on my mac and FTP transfer from one drive to the other?

That would still be the same double transfer that you're running from - no I mean an ftp client on one NAS transferring directly from the ftp server on the other NAS, or as Tank has pointed out using fxp

[gunrunnerjohn]

If you wanted to do it a lot faster, you could simply remove the disk(s) from the D-Link and use an EXT2/3 driver package for Windows to directly read the disks and move the data to the new NAS.  That will be much faster than any solution that involves reading it using the DNS-323.

[dosborne]

You could use rsync and rsyncd to copy directly between NASs, I do this on a regular basis. Presumably you could also create a mount between them as well, although I haven't tried that myself.

[drkrdglo]

If you wanted to do it a lot faster, you could simply remove the disk(s) from the D-Link and use an EXT2/3 driver package for Windows to directly read the disks and move the data to the new NAS.  That will be much faster than any solution that involves reading it using the DNS-323.

Ended up going the FTP route, getting an avg of ~500 KB/s on my transfers, but I'll definitely check into this method if the transfer doesn't finish up in the next few days.  Thanks!

[gunrunnerjohn]

Looks like about 23 days at 500KB/sec, not exactly burning the barn down.

[Buhric]

I was able to transfer from a DNS-323 to a Synology DS-210+
using Samba (DNS--> PC--> DS) at about 9-14 MB/s

took about 24h to transfers a bunch of very small files (under 100KB) and large files (4GB)
but most where about 700MB or 1.4GB

so 500KB/s you are getting will take forever....

[dosborne]

Took me about 20 hours to copy about 1TB from one DNS323 to another.

[gunrunnerjohn]

Note his 500kbyte/sec transfer rate and recalculate.