On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-02-26 at 13:58 +1300, C. Falconer wrote: >> Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 25/02/15 00:05: >> > On Tue 24 Feb 2015 20:51:38 NZDT +1300, C. Falconer wrote: >> >> But my TV drive is reporting imminent fail, so I'm going to deal to >> >> that. Comments? >> > Copying off asap is a wise move. But using NFS for that?!?? >> Why not? >> It was one way to get the full 3TB visible while not powering off the >> existing server. >> I didn't want to power down the failing disks because they're still >> running, and might not come back. >> >> The point of my post was about NFS and mounts lower down the tree not >> working as I expected. >> >> >> > USB<->SATA bridges and SATA chipsets may all have a max size for the disk >> > you can connect to them, probably especially the USB stuff. For >> > this kind of exercise (copying 3TB around) USB doesn't cut the mustard >> > (too slow, too much trouble) and a direct SATA connection is desirable. >> > Don't you have any computer with a spare SATA slot that can handle 3TB? >> > You don't even have to power that computer down, just connect SATA data >> > cable and power the disk somehow. If the SATA chipset is properly >> > supported under Linux a hotplug event will make the disk available soon >> > after. I've done it several times. (No, do not hotplug other stuff on the >> > mobo, like plug-in cards...) >> > >> > rsync is the way to go for copying (though it may truncate time stamps to >> > full seconds), but more like over TCP or ssh, not NFS?!?? >> >> I had SATA drive in one machine, NFS over gig ethernet to another >> machine, and SATA to the disk. >> Worked well enough and was done by morning. >> There is no USB used (because it didn't show the full space, which lead >> to using a second machine) >> >> >> I could have used rsync over ssh, no reason to choose one over the other. >> >> I'll synch the other drive using rsync over ssh to see if there's any >> noticeable difference. >> > Not too sure why Volker is maligning NFS - it's pretty good at what it > does that's for sure. > > There's no need to use rsync over ssh - just use rsync. As this is > primarily multimedia data it ain't gonna compress is it? > > Just use the format [email protected]::/remote/dir rather than a single > colon.
I like that tip, thanks. I shift a lot of files around my house via rsync. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
