Speedier file transfer Windows => Linux Vortexbox?

[Maxmarek]

Hi,


When I transfer (existing) flac files from my Windows machine to my Linux-Vortexbox machine the file transfer is just so slow even though they are both on the same 100Mbps LAN and both machines are >2GHz P4.


The way I do it is by Run => \\Vortexbox and drag n' drop of files in Windows. Is there any other way to make it quicker?


I have set an external USB (NTFS) drive as /storage in my Vortexbox.


btw – I really like the vortexbox, thanks a lot!


Rgds / Max

[HalfBit]

For your reference, I use an external (WD MyBook) NTFS 1 TB USB drive I connect to a windows machine to backup the music on my Vortex Box Appliance (VBA). A full backup of 306 GB with a network like you describe requires my setup approximately 8 hours with Windows Explorer drag-and-drop.


I wanted to connect the external USB to the VBA, and use the rsync command to do the backups without involving the network. The VBA recognizes the external USB drive at the hardware level, but I have not been able to figure out the commands to "mount" the USB drive.

[Maxmarek]

Strange that these type of transfers take so much time! Anyone with suggestions?




btw, the line below did the trick for me when mounting an existing USB NTFS drive full with music. I use the USB disk as storage as my old V-machine only has small HD inside.


mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /storage


I added exactly the same line at the end in the file /etc/rc.local by using the VI editor and now the disk is automatically mounted at every reboot.

[Tom Westrup]

I experienced this same issue, fortunately I had done a similar transfer before and the speed was much better. I finally rebooted everything, including the computer running vortexbox and the speed was back to what I expected.