From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 18:53:03 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CD416A417 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:53:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3A4413C468 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l15so765633rvb for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:53:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; bh=Cd6ckKcGQvnctObQvYxzPNwsaUzTD8ttT0Tq+krjsgI=; b=HCb0m0kIJNh/3isFHaCqTq7STMuMusO6SqozoFgOFKx+E5YoEpHVGmV23n5eIxwqJ8VPXAEAzDpEi2Srvr/JmybWzyAvSrXNITzXg9S23rxzyhZcl4pbxc+L2U0D0HSZ2F+J3v1xzRSG/CbpTK17JvdDhxWmy/qhHbY0NqIpI84= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:cc:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=ehBkJBnxal9QFRugjdcSY06Ie7cZ2bPu1JUH34O1k2a3aQF/j0ogRfvZB/DO0xXcDRTl+eMrRRAEmOcca1uno+CrEIG1EeNdjnWDW9SYnGUKaSSt+g2pXhpCrFNYetpGbCGnMbowSonxGuzhbmW6W1+yZ63aRNr0AlePJdpA2Zw= Received: by 10.141.164.10 with SMTP id r10mr1688416rvo.1192215181274; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.5? ( [74.134.230.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e1sm662426nzd.2007.10.12.11.52.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 11:53:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> References: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <6b2c56804e938224ded4761b8337a3ac@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Joshua Isom Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:53:03 -0500 To: "Monah Baki" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.624) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1 TB data copy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:53:03 -0000 On Oct 12, 2007, at 7:23 AM, Monah Baki wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server > supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. > We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. > Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the > freebsd > server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs > windows > 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. > The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to > it > was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. > I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the > freebsd > and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the > usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. > How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much > better > throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file > that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. > > Thanks > > > > BSD Networking, Microsoft Notworking > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The fastest approach would likely be to use Samba to transfer the files between the computers and then backup onto the usb drive from FreeBSD. But it'd help to use gigabit ethernet cards too.