I tried compressing it and moving the compressed file to the server, that worked. I'd never heard of rsync before - that sounds like an elegant solution, I'll try that one. Otherwise I at least have the tarball version on the server now. Thanks!<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Rainer M Krug <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.m.krug@gmail.com">r.m.krug@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:12 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Lee@isi-solutions.org" target="_blank">Lee@isi-solutions.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>> OS desktop and server? permission issues? Are hidden files copied? is the server hdd full? File system on desktop and server? If the desktop allows files >4GB, does the server as well? How did you copy?<br>
> <br>> <br>> <br>> What about archiving on desktop, and extracting archive on server? <br>> <br>> <br>> Questions over questions.<br>> <br></div>Good question questions ;)<br><br>OS desktop is OpenSUSE 11.4, permission issues might have been the problem but I made sure by trying to copy them this time as root (this computer recognizes the folder as belonging to root, for whatever reason, so theoretically I would have had issues, although I never do with the other computers). Hidden files should be copied - I did a drag and drop operation with the file manager and that should copy hidden files contained in the copied folders (at least that's the way it works when I test it out on my desktop, but since the command behind the copying is probably cp it should work the same when I copy it to a server). Server HDD still has lots of room, more than a TB. File system is on the desktop is Ext4, I can't find any documentation on the NAS server but it's a Black Armor from Seagate and I assume it's NTFS internally. I use CIFS to talk to it. It's definitely got files on it that are > 4 GB.<br>
<br>Archiving on the desktop and moving the archive to the server is a good idea, I'll try it out and report back :)</blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Or you could try rsync - usually the best for these kind of things. </div>
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