Terastation Help

[Neil__C]

I've purchased a couple of Buffalo Terastation Home Servers (2TB). I'm
generally pleased with them and even though they take an age to fill on
Raid 5, I was prepared for that.

Most of the stuff I need to get on them currently resides on a variety
of USB external drives. These drives can be connected to the
terastations but I can't figure out how to copy directly from the the
external USB drive to the terastion itself without going through the
network. What I'd like is to tell the thing to start copying and,
thereafter, the only activity should be directly between the
terastation and thge USB drive connected to it, with no network traffic
needed.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I've purchased a couple of Buffalo Terastation Home Servers (2TB). I'm
generally pleased with them and even though they take an age to fill on
Raid 5, I was prepared for that.

Most of the stuff I need to get on them currently resides on a variety
of USB external drives. These drives can be connected to the
terastations but I can't figure out how to copy directly from the the
external USB drive to the terastion itself without going through the
network. What I'd like is to tell the thing to start copying and,
thereafter, the only activity should be directly between the
terastation and thge USB drive connected to it, with no network traffic
needed.

Does anyone have any idea how to do this?

Thanks in anticipation.

I don't think this can be done, unless you log into the terrastation
OS and script it yourself. Then it woll only work if the OS on the
terastation can read the filesystem on the USB drives.

I think your best bet is to copy from a dofferent computer, with
the USB drive attached there, to the terrastation.

Arno

 

[Neil__C]

I don't think this can be done, unless you log into the terrastation
OS and script it yourself. Then it woll only work if the OS on the
terastation can read the filesystem on the USB drives.

I think your best bet is to copy from a dofferent computer, with
the USB drive attached there, to the terrastation.

Arno

Thanks Arno, that's what I'm doing at present but was hoping for a
better way. At least I know now

Regards