Copying from External NTFS Drive to Internal RAID-Z

[Rockefeller]

Hey all,

Have googled extensively and attempted to read as much of the documentation as possible but can't seem to make heads nor tails of this problem which will hopefully be quickly cured by one of the experienced minds here.

I've got an HP N40L with 4gb ECC Ram in it, FreeNAS 8.3 is running off of a USB. Drive-Wise, I've got 2 x 4TB Hitachi Deskstars and 3 x 2TB WD Greens combined to make a 7TB useable RAID-Z config (planning on upgrading the rest of the drives as I can, thus only having the 2 x 4tbs thus far).

I've backed up all my data onto various external NTFS-formatted disks (movies and tv shows, predominantly in mkv format) and am ready to copy onto the NAS so I've plugged my first external drive in and mounted it as a volume, I've been attempting to copy stuff over using the following command, however I'm getting a "no such file or directory" error after a list of all the files in the folder is displayed:

cp -a /mnt/Movies/* /mnt/Media_Files

I'm only running a real basic config here with my router and such so this (if I can get it working) is the most convenient method of transferring.. Any suggestions for where I can improve?

 

[cyberjock]

What's the file system of the external drive? If its not UFS or ZFS its questionable how well(or even if) it will work. My advice would be if its not copying the way you want the only other recommendation I have is to copy the files using a machine that uses that file system natively.

 

[Rockefeller]

They're formatted as NTFS, apologies, I've added that tidbit to my original post (only had it in the title). I was kind of hoping I'd be able to copy the files over using some kind of command prompt wizardry then unmount the external drive?

 

[cyberjock]

Yeah. It should work, but there's no guaratees with anything except UFS and ZFS on FreeBSD. I'd just hook the drive up to a computer and copy the files to the FreeNAS server. As it is your limitation will be USB if you aren't using USB3.

 

[gpsguy]

4gb isn't enough for your current array. I'd upgrade it to 16Gb, given your future plans. See this list for N40L RAM options

I've got an HP N40L with 4gb ECC Ram in it