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 hundred meg. I've turned off all other devices on the network to eliminate traffic. My setup:Brand new ReadyNas Duo 2x500GB Netgear DG834 Wireless router (b/g) connected to PS3, Yamaha amp, DSL broadband via CAT5e. XP Desktop PC (Belkin wireless PCI card b/g/n) comodo firewall/AVG - can't cable this due to location!XP Laptop (Wireless b/g) comodo firewall/AVGWhat's the best way to generally perform day-to-day move/copy functions, as I would if it were a local drive? I've mapped the drives in windows (home/media/backup etc..) and want to move say from backup to my media/videos share. I assume if I were to cable driect to the router that would be better (but sadly not practical), but surely if I just want to move something locally bettween shares on the NAs I can eliminate the overheads of wireless, without having to set a backup job every time I want to shuffle things around?!?! :oops: Any help very much appreciated. :D Gary.

WiFi G performance is going to be quite slow.I get the same performance over WiFi on my ReadyNAS Pro Business that I get on my WD MyBookWorld (about 2-3 MB/sec tops), and the MBW is lambasted as having pitiful 10/100 performance.If you're getting comperable performance, the only way to improve it wirelessly is to upgrade to Draft-N. Personally, I'm holding off on N until its fully ratified, currently expected to be around Nov '09.

When you move a file from one share to another, it will actually copy it via your NIC (so it will go from NAS to PC to NAS).If you are just moving files on the NAS you can stop this from happening by mapping a share to \\NAS\c using your admin user\pwd and that way all of your named shares will be visible under that single mapping.Cheers,Rob.

Further to lordgibbness' post, if you are using an external USB hard drive you could always connect it directly to the NAS and use the backup utility in Frontview to backup the data. As lordginness mentions in his post, this will prevent the data from having to traverse the network and it will provide the best performance.Typical performance numbers can be found in this thread:viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23441&p=128993#p128993-Dave

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 commandReference: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/linuxfiles.htmlegmv Movies/* Media/MoviesI just got a Media Player, and needed all my media files in the same share. Hence needing to move around 1Tb of data around.

cclambie wrote:I used SSH add on and a program called ZOC from emTec which is a Windows Terminal system.Or you can try PuTTY which is a free program that does the same.

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Skarn
Aspirant
Dec 03, 2008
WiFi G performance is going to be quite slow.

I get the same performance over WiFi on my ReadyNAS Pro Business that I get on my WD MyBookWorld (about 2-3 MB/sec tops), and the MBW is lambasted as having pitiful 10/100 performance.

If you're getting comperable performance, the only way to improve it wirelessly is to upgrade to Draft-N. Personally, I'm holding off on N until its fully ratified, currently expected to be around Nov '09.
lordgibbness
Aspirant
Dec 03, 2008
When you move a file from one share to another, it will actually copy it via your NIC (so it will go from NAS to PC to NAS).

If you are just moving files on the NAS you can stop this from happening by mapping a share to \\NAS\c using your admin user\pwd and that way all of your named shares will be visible under that single mapping.

Cheers,
Rob.
dbott67
Guide
Dec 03, 2008
Further to lordgibbness' post, if you are using an external USB hard drive you could always connect it directly to the NAS and use the backup utility in Frontview to backup the data. As lordginness mentions in his post, this will prevent the data from having to traverse the network and it will provide the best performance.

Typical performance numbers can be found in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=31&t=23441&p=128993#p128993

-Dave
cclambie
Aspirant
Dec 06, 2008
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.
chirpa
Luminary
Dec 06, 2008
cclambie wrote:
I used SSH add on and a program called ZOC from emTec which is a Windows Terminal system.
Or you can try PuTTY which is a free program that does the same.
lordgibbness
Aspirant
Dec 08, 2008
I think for a non-technical user mapping to the \c share would be more straighforward though...
cclambie
Aspirant
Dec 08, 2008
lordgibbness wrote:
I think for a non-technical user mapping to the \c share would be more straighforward though...

I am a Linux Newbie and I worked it out easier than mapping to the \c from windows..... I did try that first...
But horses for courses...
dadeli
Aspirant
Dec 18, 2008
I use a mac os X, can I just use terminal and find the ReadyNas in the root directory, or is there some other way that I will need to give the linux mv commands to the server?
jtoeman
Aspirant
Dec 21, 2008
I'd like to echo some frustration here. Why isn't there a simple web-based tool to move/copy files around the ReadyNAS shares/folders?? Expecting users to mount shares or go into a Linux shell just to accomplish this incredibly simple task is very surprising.
Davidny
Aspirant
Dec 21, 2008
On an NV+ SSH isn't needed to copy files, a USB device can be attached to the NV+ and a backup job in Frontview can be set up to copy the files to a share.

Does it work the same way for the Duo?