I need to back up to 1.5TB help

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Hey all, as it stands i have about 1.5ish TB of data on my server and i need to move most of it to a NAS raid box or a FW raid box. the problem is i dont want to purchase another hdd as that will cost me too much and the idea of putting stuff on dvd sounds too long.

is there any cheap way to do this... or am i being optimisticly stupid?

Cheers
 
By ethernet would seem the obvious way. If you have the data on your server now, and hard drives in a NAS, then over ethernet definitely seems sensible.

Otherwise, can you take hard drives out of server and plug them into NAS? Or take hard drives out of NAS and plug them into server?

What operating system? If linux, from server: mount the NAS volume on /mnt/nas then ask rsync to make /mnt/data and /mnt/nas identical. It can do it with md5sum if concerned about data corruption. It might take quite a while, but just leave it be and it'll finish eventually.
If using windows, its going to be mount networked drive, then probably copy and paste and hope for the best.

Not sure what else I can suggest without knowing more. Cheers
 
Hard drives are by far the cheapest way to store large amounts of data, so as suggested, do this over ethernet to the NAS box.
 
Speed said:
Hard drives are by far the cheapest way to store large amounts of data, so as suggested, do this over ethernet to the NAS box.
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Well.. buying in bulk DVDs are down to about 10p/disc, so 2.2p/gb, a bit more than a third the price of the cheapest hdds (6.32p/gb my reckoning). Just sooo much more hassle for large amounts of data.
 
miniyazz said:
Well.. buying in bulk DVDs are down to about 10p/disc, so 2.2p/gb, a bit more than a third the price of the cheapest hdds (6.32p/gb my reckoning). Just sooo much more hassle for large amounts of data.
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True, I didn't think DVDs were that cheap, but to be fair DVDs don't store large amounts of data when you are talking about 1.5Tb to back up. I'd stick with hard drives and £65 odd for 1Tb of quick easy to use storage is a bargain.
 
DVDs are NOT cheaper as he would need a new bunch each time he backed up since discs that cost 10p are most likely to be recordable and not rewritable.

my vote will be for HDDs
 
Much of the data stored is usually static (e.g. film collection), DVDs are just a pain though. I'm not actually suggesting he use DVDs :p
 
Hi Soogs,
If I've understood the question correctly you want to move disks full of data from your existing server to a NAS without reformatting them? Afraid the answer is most likely a 'no' unless you're simply moving individual disks into a simple external USB/FW caddies. As others have said, unless you've got a couple of days to waste with dvds, extra hard disk(s) are the way to go. It sounds like your data isn't backed-up at the moment so buying extra disks would be a good investment anyway.
If you're planning on using raid for fault tolerance on the NAS, then don't forget (and apologies in advance for the cliche) that raid isn't a substitute for backup!
Oh, and a +1 for the suggestion on using md5 or similar to check the transferred data is intact.
 
think he wants to move the hdds from the server to the nas box but as its in raid, it'll have to be reconfigured, so he needs to backup the data while he does the raid
 
wonko said:
Hi Soogs,
If I've understood the question correctly you want to move disks full of data from your existing server to a NAS without reformatting them? Afraid the answer is most likely a 'no' unless you're simply moving individual disks into a simple external USB/FW caddies. As others have said, unless you've got a couple of days to waste with dvds, extra hard disk(s) are the way to go. It sounds like your data isn't backed-up at the moment so buying extra disks would be a good investment anyway.
If you're planning on using raid for fault tolerance on the NAS, then don't forget (and apologies in advance for the cliche) that raid isn't a substitute for backup!
Oh, and a +1 for the suggestion on using md5 or similar to check the transferred data is intact.
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Correctamondo!!!

well i found a 1.5tb disk for what seemed to be a bargain so i went that route.

now i will buy a raid box later on when im running low on space again :D

i thought i mentioned that i wanted to move the drives out of the server into a raid box rather than just transfer the data out.

i really didnt want to spend on another hdd but it was the only way :(
 
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