On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Daniel Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried compressing it and moving the compressed file to the server, that > worked. Great. > I'd never heard of rsync before - that sounds like an elegant solution, > I'll try that one. Absolutely - especially, if you copy the data regularly. But even for a single copy of a larger amount of data, rsync is quite useful. Otherwise I at least have the tarball version on the server now. True - that's always useful. > Thanks! Pleasure, Cheers, Rainer > > > 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 > > -- 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
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