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A new user's experience - coming from Lacie Background
Hi all,
I'd just thought I'd let you know of some struggles I'm having/had.
For the last year or so, I've had a Lacie 5Big network2 that has at times given be grief with network dropouts - irregularly and restarts for no reason. Personally, I think it's a lemon.
Last week, it dropped a slot. Not a drive - a slot.
So, after a bit of emailing, they sent me a new battery pack. Very good service I'll admit and rather timely. So, I can't bag them on that. Anyway, short version is I need to return it, which obviously presents some problems, because they won't cover/guarantee the data integrity.
Yesterday I purchased a ReadyNAS Ultra 6. It seems to be working, and I put in a couple of 3TB drives and it's firing nicely.
However, this is where I'm at and I wanted to share where I'm at.
Now, I realise that it's a little older that the latest version, but it still works ok, and is looking ok. However I have noticed that some of the addons don't seem to function properly anymore, or correctly. (eg the FTP feature in exTplorer, or the Net2FTP-which has limits anyway on it).
So here's my real predicament.
I have about 6T worth of data to transfer. This process will take a long time. So to half this time, I've taken a couple of nerdy steps, and please clarify if I've done this right.
I've managed to get in to the SSH - which you have to login with root, not admin - as my old linux days have reminded me.
I made a new path on the device:
mkdir /mnt/lacie
Then, I mounted the share path, from my lacie drive with a similar command like this:
mount -t nfs -o username=myuserme 192.168.1.15:/Data /mnt/lacie
I also installed Midnight Commander
apt-get update
apt-get install mc
It had several dependencies that I updated too.
So, you say why do all this? If I just dragged the files from my Windows Explorer (or Mac Finder) from one network share to the next, in theory I'd be creating a bottleneck, where the data would have to travel through my computer, and then back to the share.
To remove this extra path, I used MC to do a direct copy from the Lacie share mount, to the local path /c/media/Data
Is this good practice, and why haven't I seen an addon for this? I thought there would have been migration tools or similar available for this kind of thing?
Anyway, thought I'd say hi and tell you where I'm at with my new ReadyNAS. :)
Cheers,
Steve
I'd just thought I'd let you know of some struggles I'm having/had.
For the last year or so, I've had a Lacie 5Big network2 that has at times given be grief with network dropouts - irregularly and restarts for no reason. Personally, I think it's a lemon.
Last week, it dropped a slot. Not a drive - a slot.
So, after a bit of emailing, they sent me a new battery pack. Very good service I'll admit and rather timely. So, I can't bag them on that. Anyway, short version is I need to return it, which obviously presents some problems, because they won't cover/guarantee the data integrity.
Yesterday I purchased a ReadyNAS Ultra 6. It seems to be working, and I put in a couple of 3TB drives and it's firing nicely.
However, this is where I'm at and I wanted to share where I'm at.
Now, I realise that it's a little older that the latest version, but it still works ok, and is looking ok. However I have noticed that some of the addons don't seem to function properly anymore, or correctly. (eg the FTP feature in exTplorer, or the Net2FTP-which has limits anyway on it).
So here's my real predicament.
I have about 6T worth of data to transfer. This process will take a long time. So to half this time, I've taken a couple of nerdy steps, and please clarify if I've done this right.
I've managed to get in to the SSH - which you have to login with root, not admin - as my old linux days have reminded me.
I made a new path on the device:
mkdir /mnt/lacie
Then, I mounted the share path, from my lacie drive with a similar command like this:
mount -t nfs -o username=myuserme 192.168.1.15:/Data /mnt/lacie
I also installed Midnight Commander
apt-get update
apt-get install mc
It had several dependencies that I updated too.
So, you say why do all this? If I just dragged the files from my Windows Explorer (or Mac Finder) from one network share to the next, in theory I'd be creating a bottleneck, where the data would have to travel through my computer, and then back to the share.
To remove this extra path, I used MC to do a direct copy from the Lacie share mount, to the local path /c/media/Data
Is this good practice, and why haven't I seen an addon for this? I thought there would have been migration tools or similar available for this kind of thing?
Anyway, thought I'd say hi and tell you where I'm at with my new ReadyNAS. :)
Cheers,
Steve
7 Replies
- Oh, further to this, it took me a while to figure out what OS system I had, so that I could install the correct addons.
For the record, I'm installing files for the x86 (intel) based on the OS4.
I also paid for the PHP installation. It seemed to work.
PHPShell doesn't work though. - You could transfer data that way or you could just use Frontview backup jobs using NFS to do basically the same thing.
If you want you could install the new OS on your NAS but that is unsupported and a few things wouldn't work. - Man, I feel a little dumb now. :/ haha. That's ok. Either way, I know it's going to take a very long time....
- actually, you know what, mdgm, thanks for pointing this out.
It now means I can basically walk away and it will just run. No laptop required - which is what I was hoping for. Ta. - Well if you want to use SSH, if you could install something like screen you could run the command using that and even close the SSH session and it would keep on running. Another option would be to make your own cron job (Frontview backup jobs use cron to run them on a schedule - if enabled).
- Yeah, I've discovered it does that, so now I've just left it running, and I'll see where it is in the next day or so.
So far so good though. How hard is it to put the new OS on, and what does it break? - Not hard to put it on: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=70133
Stuff like fan control, temps and fan status showing in the UI could be broken. Some of this can be addressed.
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