Hi,
Is there a way to FTP from OMV as a client? Or to move files from one share to another? I have about 3TBs of media to load on to my newly created OMV and they are on network attached HDDs that I can FTP into. If I could invoke some form of a FTP client in OMV, I could transfer the files from the network attached HDDs. Or I could connect the raw HDDs to OMV, mount the drives and transfer to exsisting shares.
If there was a plugin that enabled a FTP client, I could also pull content into OMV from other locations on my network. Maybe even automate it with a CRON job? This is whatI had setup with my WHS and I would like to having to pull content thru a PC, only to push it to the OMV.
Thanks,
Ted
Moving content on to and in OMV
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Couldn't you just use a third system to copy files from the network attached drives to a share on the new OMV system? Otherwise, you can always install a ftp client on the OMV box and transfer using command line.
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Login as root. Change directory to where you want to receive files. Type ftp and hit enter in command line. If a FTP client does not start do the following and try again:
apt-get install filezilla
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There are several very easy ways to do this and automate the jobs. The method depends on which ṕrotocols your different sources support.
My primary choise would be rsync using OMV to automatically pull the files from ýour sources.
Other posibilities are:
SFTP (FTP under ssh) if your sources support this.
NFS if your clients support this. using a cronjob that runs a script
SMB - install smbclient on OMV and make a cronjob that logs in to your sources and copy the files to OMV.
FTP as you are suggestingAgain - it depends on what protocols your sources support.
If you tell a little more about your sources it will be a little easier to help you.
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Put the HDDs of your WHS into your OMV. Use Rsync then to copy your files.
Greetings
David -
Ah, sorry. Well, as your WHS supports smb natively I would suggest to use it for filetransfers, FTP can be much slower if you have many small files.
Greetings
David -
Buy a USB enclosure, and put the drive w/ the data in it... attach to your OMV box, mount the USB, move them to your internal storage.
FTP will be ungodly slow moving that much data.
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Zitat von "IamTed"
What would be the best way to transfer from one OMV box to another, without having to use a third machine to be the intermediary?
I'm using rsync to copy files from production OMV to backup OMV. Rsync only moves what has changed since last rsync so that both boxes allways are in sync. It's the fastets and easyist method.
Backup OMV is set to rsync whenever it is turned on. -
Zitat von "jensk"
I'm using rsync to copy files from production OMV to backup OMV. Rsync only moves what has changed since last rsync so that both boxes allways are in sync. It's the fastets and easyist method.
Backup OMV is set to rsync whenever it is turned on.Using rsync for the actual syncing.. is a good idea. I use it myself to automatically back up a few directories on "drive A" to "drive B". However, syncing 3tb of data over the network, even w/ rsync.. is going to take forever.
Combine putting the drive in a USB enclosure and mount on the NAS with rsync, and you have a fairly effective solution too the OP's problem. USB Enclosures are are fairly inexpensive now, and to me, it would be worth it for the time saved. Following a similar procedure here on my NAS has always been very smooth. I actually do just the opposite for an offsite backup of my data. I take a USB drive and hook it up to my NAS every month or so, and sync the data from my internal drive to my USB drive.
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Seeing that the drives in the old OMV are setup in a RAID 5 array (Done with OMV, not hardware), can I pull the drives, put them into an USB enclosure and mount them on the new OMV? With the drives in my WHS, this would work, being that it is a JBOD setup instead of a true RAID array.
If not, I am guessing that I could use a Ext HHD, and shuttle data from the old to new OMV. (Sort of a high density snickernet!)
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You can move them to USB without a problem. OMV will still see the same uuid and you won't have to do anything.
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You can mount a RAID 5 via putting all the drives in externals??? I learned something today.
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Zitat von "tekkbebe"
You can mount a RAID 5 via putting all the drives in externals??? I learned something today.
Yep. I made a raid 5 array of 4 gig usb sticks just to try it. The drives will still get /dev/sdX designations and it is transparent to the system.
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Only you Ryeco, RAID 5 on USB sticks. :lol: :lol:
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