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breasthead · 2010-07-19 17:09:39

Hi guys,

I've got 2x dlink 323 NAS, one of which had a drive fail and I'm wanting to copy over some movies from the old one to the new one.
Both are conneted to a standard adsl modem/router with 10/100 ehternet, and both are running ffp 0.5. The only difference is one is fw-1.08 and other is fw-1.05.

I've tried several combinations of rsync'ing but can't seem to get any better than 1.2MB/s transfers, the speed fluctuates from 600kB/s -- 1.2MB/s.

I'm usinng putty on a windows box, ssh'd onto the old dlink (the one with the movies on it) and doing an
rsync -avh --progress user@newDlink232:/path/to/MOVIES .

I've also tried the reverse, where I go from the new dlink and grab the movies from the old one, (using the same command above but in reverse) and that seems to be worse speeds, peaking around 800kB/s.

I've played with several of the switches for rsync, I didn't think the --compress would do much on an .avi file (i did test it, and it didn't!)
I've also tried scp .... again, that was no beter than 1.2MB/s ...

Has anyone got a way to transfer at a faster rate? I know there are people on here complaining about the throughput of these devices, but they seem to get speeds ~4MB/s (from what I read...)

Cheers for any help,
B

Darkman · 2010-07-19 17:14:58

best speeds I've been seeing are via smb, and nfs being a close second on my 343.

have you tried mounting one on the other, and run a copy.. (rsync sometimes isnt as fast... nice for second run- but for first i tent to use cp..

than n $3.00 might get you a cup o coffee...

DM

skydreamer · 2010-07-19 22:25:49

I always used a separate linux machine for upgrading the disks in DNS-323, this is the fastest way to transfer the data.

breasthead · 2010-07-20 14:12:32

Darkman wrote:
have you tried mounting one on the other, and run a copy..

No but that sounds like a good idea ... can you give me any further instructions on how to do that -- is there a how to somewhere I can't find? Would the code be something along the lines of

Code:

mount ext2 IPaddress:/mnt/HD_a2/SHARE/movies /mnt/HD_a2/DLINK2/

...I'm OK with linux in an everyday users level, but this "administrator" level stuff of mouting drives and fancy stuff is a little above my level as I don't usually have access rights to do this kinda stuff.

Cheers,
B

Isildur · 2010-07-20 15:21:34

I think that you need to google nfs mounting on 323.

breasthead · 2010-07-22 12:39:07

Well I ended up mounting both dlink's to my mac, and running the rsync through that.
i.e

Code:

 rsync -avh --progress /Volumes/Dlink1/MOVES /Volumes/Dlink2/MOVIES

Transfer speed was constant at 7.8 MB/s which I thought was pretty good. Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Cheers,
B

Grunt · 2010-07-23 04:10:02

You can use tar and pipe it into netcat: this is one of the fastest way to copy over network.

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Darkman wrote:

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