Copying files

[jrlrocks]

Hi All,

Just setup my HDA and I'm copying files from my windows server to the HDA. I have GB nics and GB LAN. Typically from windows 7 to my windows server I'd see speeds of +60MB/s my video database would be copied pretty quick. (I just tested a 3 GB file transfer - no issue)

Today from my windows server to the HDA I get a consistent 1.3MB/s ...
I setup Greyhole on 2 1.5TB drives...

What do I have to do to speed this up? I understand this may have been spoken about before and being a noob I may have missed the thread. Please your assistance to point me in the right direction is greatly appreciated.

J

[rgmhtt]

If you are limited to windows commands, open a command window and use XCOPY.

Copy, particularly in Windows Explorer is VERY conservative on its blocking of data. This, run over normal SMB settings can be quite slow. Boy, I remember those 9600bps WAN days and what we had to do to move data1!

XCOPY does larger blocks. This works much better over network connections, as long as you don't have slow (read less than 56Kbps) links.

If you can install linux commands on windows, like with Cygnus, then you could have rsync which does compression as well.

[jrlrocks]

Thanks for the tip... no offence, there's got to be a better way that DOS If that's it... then I'm done with amahi... I'll head back to WHS... I have about 5-600GB of data to move... it will take me weeks

[jrlrocks]

Although from what I've read your not supposed to do the yum-updates... however it fixed my problem... (I'm getting 50MB/s) hope the updates don't break anything in Amahi...

[bigfoot65]

Everyone has their opinion on updates. Mine is why would you not want your system up to date. There are always fixes for problems and often security issues. My HDA is always up to date and I feel I have far less problems than most folks as a result.

[jrlrocks]

Thanks! I though I read on the wiki that updates could break Amahi