downloading torrent to nas at work. controll it at home?

carl666 wrote:
soo..what you say is that , in the moment i disconect the hd from the nas it will reinstall and delete the data on the disk next time i put it back in???????????????????

Assuming you're using X-RAID, it will "sync" with the first disk.

Pulling disks from the NAS is NEVER a good idea unless they're failing. RAID systems were not designed to work that way; they are designed to protect against a single disk failure and every time you pull a disk, you are putting your data at further risk. Additionally, the data on the 2nd disk is "parity" information and not readable under normal circumstances. You would need to mount the disk in a linux system and be very familiar with LVM and RAID systems in order to access the data.

If you wish to move data between work and home, get a portable USB drive and backup any desired data to it. Then you can safely move data back and forth. I also highly recommend using this method to backup the data on the NAS to protect yourself against fire, theft, flood, accidental/intentional deletions, multiple disk failures or just plain bad luck.

Please read or re-read this to make sure you fully understand how to protect your data: http://www.readynas.com/?p=3153

okey, understand.

i have a 200gb usb drive.
can i plug that in the front of the nas and drag/drop de movies over froom my laptop?
sorry for all the questions :)

carl666 wrote:
can i plug that in the front of the nas and drag/drop de movies over froom my laptop?

Yes, but it's faster if you create a backup job in Frontview. Dragging and dropping will cause the data to traverse the network (in other words, data will be copied from NAS to your PC and then back to USB drive).

Have a look at this thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=36663&p=204385&hilit=backup+frontview+traverse#p204385

carl666 wrote:
sorry for all the questions :)

No worries. 8)

okey.

i plugged the usb hd in front on nas.
added a backup job with destination to the front usb and pressed Go.
"in progress" is the status as we speak so i think i got it :)

1 hour almost gone since i started the backup job and just 1 movie is copied to the usb storage?? :( ( 1,2gb)
whats wrong?

What filesystem is on the USB drive (NTFS, FAT or ext3)? NTFS is painfully slow under linux. Try using FAT or preferably ext3.

In my experience the best performance is obtained by attaching the USB drive to the NAS and doing the following:

1. Enable fast USB writes on the Duo
2. Connect the USB drive to one of the USB ports on the NAS.
3. Format the USB drive with ext3 (offers better performance and supports files > 4 GB where as FAT does not)
4. Create a backup job to transfer the desired files to the NAS.

As noted above there are a number of factors that can affect USB performance, the primary one being the type of filesystem on the USB drive (fat, ntfs, ext3, etc). On the sparc-based units, one of the developers posted this once:

NTFS  = 2.5MB/s
FAT32 = 5MB/s
EXT3  = 10MB/s
EXT2  = 14MB/s

The other thing to consider is that Windows cannot natively read ext3 (linux) filesystems. You'll need to install the free open-source driver from http://www.fs-driver.org/ in order to mount the drive on a Windows-based machine.

okey.
i hava alot og full hd 1080i movies.
one full hd movie are 6gb or higher.
fat doesent support this size am i right?

carl666 wrote:
one full hd movie are 6gb or higher. fat doesent support this size am i right?

Correct. FAT does not support file sizes greater than 4 GB. You'll need to use ext2/3 for best performance and large files.

allright, ill try :)

okey... i have now transfered 4 movies (6gb) to my usb HD . it tok me 4 hours!!!
do i have to reset my nas after enabled "fast usb"?

something is wrong, 6 gb transfer in 4 hour.....:(