Adding Drives to FreeNAS

[Shuruga2]

I'm running out of room and am going to pick up a couple 500s this week for my NAS. Getting the drives in there and working is no problem, it's moving the files around that I'm wondering about.

Previously when I've moved files from one NAS drive to the other I've noticed that it's not done as a direct copy on that machine. It gets downloaded to my computer then uploaded to the new drive at about 3m/s. This isn't good enough when I'm looking at redistributing about 300 gigs.
The 3m/s is only when moving files on the NAS, normally I get 6.5-7 up and down.


What can I do here that wont take me more than a day to complete?

[SavageBasher]

the only way you can move it locally is either via that machine or ssh/telnet into it and do it via cl.

[Shuruga2]

Ok, I might be able to muddle my way though that. Too bad winscp cant access it.

[SavageBasher]

just use putty

[Como]

NAS isnt always as simple as a *nix box... which model is it? look it up, see if it has functional shell on it.

[The_Jizzler]

why not just use the rsync from the web gui?

[Shuruga2]

SavageBasher: putty it will be.

Como: It works. I think Freenas a very stripped down *nix build?

The_Jizzler: Rsync appears to want to copy the whole drive. I'm in a situation where the files going to each of the 500s take up 2/3 of their original drive. It would mean copying a lot of data I dont need to.

[smokie mcpott]

Como: It works. I think Freenas a very stripped down *nix build?


no its stripped down FreeBSD
read up on your BSD commands

ya como, it has sshd built into it