Migrate data from USB drive to AMAHI

[s9601694]

I am done setting up Greyhole. Did a "test run" and put 30GB of data on the server. Worked like a charm!

Now i have a USB Drive with approx 700GB of data that i want to upload to my server. What is the best practice way of doing that?? Somehow mount the drive outside of the greyhole pool and copy it to the grey hole pool? Or connect it to a seperate machine on the network and copy the date over the network like I did with the 30Gig?

THanks!!

Rik

[bigfoot65]

The how to use USB disks wiki guidance may help. Would not recommend copying files over the network if you can avoid it as it will be time consuming.

BTW, the Amahi Wiki is a great source of how to's and guidance that may make things easier for you to learn what you can do with your Amahi HDA.

[s9601694]

Thanks for the suggestion. I am new to linux and am just very worried about data loss on that external USB drive (as it is the only copy of all my data).

After it is mounted, do i use my windows PC to copy-paste from one Amahi network drive (i.e. the USB connected ext drive) to the destination drive (the 'greyhole' shared internal SATA drives)?


I have been reading lots in the WIKI and it told me perfectly how to get to the point where i am right now: A working system! Great right ups!

Thanks!!

Rik

[bigfoot65]

That guidance would most likely work best with command line. If you are more comfortable, you could just do as you mentioned and connect it to Windows desktop. Then copy across the network.

The only way to learn Linux is to play around as you will find with Amahi and similar OS environments.