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ghdweb
Nov 25, 2008Aspirant
Moving files between shares
I'm moving files around on my ready nas, having setup backup jobs to copy all my data from an external USB drive to my shares. Problem is, it's shockingly slow, taking hours to move folders of a few...
cclambie
Dec 06, 2008Aspirant
I just moved 1TB of data from my seperate Shares for Media into one share in less than 5 mins.
I used SSH add on and a program called ZOC from emTec www.emtec.com which is a Windows Terminal system.
Simply navigate to the Root
#cd /
Then use the mv command
Reference: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/linuxfiles.html
eg
mv Movies/* Media/Movies
I just got a Media Player, and needed all my media files in the same share. Hence needing to move around 1Tb of data around.
I used SSH add on and a program called ZOC from emTec www.emtec.com which is a Windows Terminal system.
Simply navigate to the Root
#cd /
Then use the mv command
Reference: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/linuxfiles.html
eg
mv Movies/* Media/Movies
I just got a Media Player, and needed all my media files in the same share. Hence needing to move around 1Tb of data around.
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