[Leica] [Leica} Tina's Drobos... Update

[Nathan Wajsman]

You are a good person and a brave man, Frank. But this whole thread just reinforces my preference for “just a bunch of disks”.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 23 May 2024, at 09:39, Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> The first 9TB or so is copied.
> 
> Only another 30TB to go.... all on the other Drobo....
> 
> 1 to 2 weeks if we are lucky... 24/7
> 
> Installation went with a modicum of issues, mostly because I am not really an IT guy.... but the Tech Support at Synology was top notch and helped me through it.... This box, an 8 bay model, is no harder to install than a 32bay but it as a long time ago, it was not remotely done, and it was not my computer i was working on.... SO it took a while to get it right.
> 
> Having said that, there is a wire running down the middle of Tina's office... which I am terribly worried about the risk of tripping.... so that will be the next big effort... get rid of the wire.....I will use an Access Point router and re-connect her computer to the internet to be LAN rather than WIFI.   I got time....
> 
> One note to other brave folk who try this on their own.... You can copy from at least two of the USB ports at the same time.
> 
> It works and I got the impression it did not slow down the Drobo copy when I connected up a Desktop Seagate USB HDD.
> 
> This trick effectively doubled the copy speed.... 2 copy sources at the same time.
> 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> 
> BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
> 
> On 5/21/2024 8:08 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:
>> The new NAS is installed and working.  The balance of the work is to transfer the files.
>> 
>> From Drobo to Synology directly will take some time.... Right now, it is transferring at the rate of around 2TB per 12 hours....
>> 
>> Tina has almost 38TB to transfer.... If I could speed it up I would, but for now, that is it.
>> 
>> Only another 10 days... of CONSTANT 24/7 data transfer.
>> 
>> Which means I will be lucky to be done in 2-3 weeks.  Well, if I do not mess up....
>> 
>> These are being copied.... using the NAS to do all the work,
>> 
>> And then I will optimize her entire system for speedier and more efficient operation.
>> 
>> 
>> Frank Filippone
>> BMWRed735i at Gmail.com
>> 
>> 
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