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I have some data which I need to move from my Linux (RH7) server over to one of my hard disks on my Windows2K machine.
Now prior to my Linux days, this would be done in an hour or so, simply by copying the files over the network.
Since using Linux, I have been using samba, and although I have had a few problems in the past, nothing like this.
In the past the problems have been limited to a few corrupt files, and possibly having to try 3 or 4 times in order to complete the transfer. I would like to stress though that this operation between the Linux and Windows mahcines took a good deal more time to complete, from what it used to with 2 Windows machines.
Anyway, this time, to avoid the problems from the past, I decided to try transferring the files via FTP, been at it for 17 hours now, and only 10% done. It is only 6Gb of data, and during this time, I've stopped some of the other services on the box to try and minimise any issues.
Originally posted by plisken In the past the problems have been limited to a few corrupt files, and possibly having to try 3 or 4 times in order to complete the transfer. I would like to stress though that this operation between the Linux and Windows mahcines took a good deal more time to complete, from what it used to with 2 Windows machines.
How did you do it? Did you mount a linux smb share and copy using widows, mount a windows smb share and copy using linux, or what? I would mount the windows smb share (see "man smbmount") and copy from linux. If you have to resume from somewhere in the middle, something like mirrordir could be useful.
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Originally posted by plisken Anyway, this time, to avoid the problems from the past, I decided to try transferring the files via FTP, been at it for 17 hours now, and only 10% done. It is only 6Gb of data, and during this time, I've stopped some of the other services on the box to try and minimise any issues.
How fast is your ethernet? What ftp program are you using? Other services shouldn't interfere.
Yeah, looks like you might have some bad blocks on hda. Is that the one you're copying data from? You'll probably need to run fsck from a rescue disk, or at least verify that e2fsprogs isn't corrupt by doing "rpm --verify e2fsprogs".
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