Help with data migration

[krantz]

Hello

I have a linksys nas200 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS200) and for many years it served it´s purpose.

I got 500GB in that device and I would like to move the data to my freeNAS, however the filesystem in the nas200 disk is XFS (as far as I can tell).

I tried doing a smbmount to the nas200 from my freeNAS and then copy the data. the result? 17 GB in more than 8 hours --- so it means that it will take approx 235 hours to copy everything -- that´s not an option.

I *already* pulled the drive out of the device and connected it to my freeNAS box, and it is ready to be imported (camcontrol shows it on the devlist), however I am concerned wether it can be imported or not. Those bytes are still important to me and I don´t want to risk losing them, I am affraid if I try to import it as a new volume under EXT2FS it will crash, burn, and die.

Any suggestions?

TIA

 

[cyberjock]

You won't be able to do what you want.

Your only option is to copy the contents from the drive to the FreeNAS server(once you add storage space to it). When you choose to use proprietary solutions, you have proprietary problems. Welcome to the world of "they pwned you".

I see you have 2 options:(if your data is VERY important and the only copy you should do option 1)

1. Copy the data from the NAS200 to your FreeNAS server over the SMB share.
2. Put the XFS formatted drive on a linux machine. It appears that linux supports XFS(the only OS that does) and you should be able to copy data to your FreeNAS server faster than the NAS200 can. I have no idea if it will actually work, if it will "just mount" or anything like that. It may require significant experimenting from the command line to get the XFS drive to mount.

Again, if the data is very important to you, you may want to "wait it out" with option 1. If things go badly with option 2 you may lose your data.

 

[krantz]

Hi Cyber

Thanks for your input.