NASLite Network Attached Storage

I'm getting ready to replace one of my disks with a 300GB drive. In the past I took one disk offline and put the new one in, then mounted the new drive from my Windows box and did a copy from the old disk to the new disk. After that, I removed the old disk and put everything else back online.

Previously, the other suggestion was to boot from a knoppix-like image and do the copy directly on the server (while NasLite was down).

Would it be possible to add a function to the admin area in Naslite to enable a disk to disk copy to be performed from within NasLite?

Just a thought.

Thanks.

Ray.

Not a bad idea for the next release...

Now that is a good idea!

Not a raid solution, but its a ideal option for back up.

I would use this feature.

I did the copy this weekend using the SLAX LiveCD distro. Everything went flawlessly but it still took on the order of 9 - 10 hours to copy 215GB from the old disk onto the new 300GB drive. I did the copy through KDE using "cut/paste" and then did another copy (for a different disk) using "cp -r -p" which also looked like it was running at about the same rate (approx 6MB/sec).

I'm assuming that is just the way it goes. Would a NasLite feature allow the unaffected disks to still be available during the operation?

I hated having to shut down the box, since I had an uninterrupted run of 170+ days of uptime, but such is life.

Thanks.

I'm assuming that NASlite+ will have some sort of utility to convert existing file systems from ext2 to ext3 when version 2.x is available.

This utility, of course, is simple (tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX) but users have no means of doing this other than the admin interface so an option is definitely necessary/required.

Adding the suggested option of a disk to disk copy would also be simple to do and added at the same time (I hope!).

I'm assuming that NASlite+ will have some sort of utility to convert existing file systems from ext2 to ext3 when version 2.x is available.

This utility, of course, is simple (tune2fs -j /dev/hdXX) but users have no means of doing this other than the admin interface so an option is definitely necessary/required.

Adding the suggested option of a disk to disk copy would also be simple to do and added at the same time (I hope!).