I tried compressing it and moving the compressed file to the server, that worked. I'd never heard of rsync before - that sounds like an elegant solution, I'll try that one. Otherwise I at least have the tarball version on the server now. Thanks!
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > OS desktop and server? permission issues? Are hidden files copied? is >> the server hdd full? File system on desktop and server? If the desktop >> allows files >4GB, does the server as well? How did you copy? >> > >> > >> > >> > What about archiving on desktop, and extracting archive on server? >> > >> > >> > Questions over questions. >> > >> Good question questions ;) >> >> OS desktop is OpenSUSE 11.4, permission issues might have been the problem >> but I made sure by trying to copy them this time as root (this computer >> recognizes the folder as belonging to root, for whatever reason, so >> theoretically I would have had issues, although I never do with the other >> computers). Hidden files should be copied - I did a drag and drop operation >> with the file manager and that should copy hidden files contained in the >> copied folders (at least that's the way it works when I test it out on my >> desktop, but since the command behind the copying is probably cp it should >> work the same when I copy it to a server). Server HDD still has lots of >> room, more than a TB. File system is on the desktop is Ext4, I can't find >> any documentation on the NAS server but it's a Black Armor from Seagate and >> I assume it's NTFS internally. I use CIFS to talk to it. It's definitely got >> files on it that are > 4 GB. >> >> Archiving on the desktop and moving the archive to the server is a good >> idea, I'll try it out and report back :) > > > Or you could try rsync - usually the best for these kind of things. > > > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, > UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: [email protected] > > Skype: RMkrug > > -- B.Sc. Daniel Lee Geschäftsführung für Forschung und Entwicklung ISIS - International Solar Information Solutions Deutschhausstr. 10 35037 Marburg Festnetz: +49 6421 379 6256 Mobil: +49 176 6127 7269 E-Mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.isi-solutions.org
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