I have been trying to copy a very large directory to my PR4100. It is ~200GB and contains thousands of folders and files (iTunes Music Library). I have had ZERO luck in getting it copied over and have tried a bunch of different methods. Any help would be appreciated before I throw this ■■■■ thing out the window. Details below of the setup and what I have tried.
Folder is stores=d on external USB raid connected to my Mac formatted as mac os extended journaled
I connect to my NAS via AFP, a straight drag and drop copy fails (I forget the error since this was the first thing I tried)
Connected drive directly to PR4100 USB and tried file copy from the UI, and also a backup job…both fail
Created a TAR of the files on the USB and then copied the TAR to the NAS, and then untar’ed via SSH - fails on a specific folder/file and says it is too long…I am currently creating a new TAR without that one folder to see if that works
Other weird issues - I get alot of -40 errors when trying to delete the folders after the untar. I also tried to move the folders that were succesfully untar’ed to where I want them and got more errors
I am thinking the issue here has to do with special characters and file name length. Seems like the folders that give me issues have something like é. Any thoughts on how I can get around this and get this stuff copied? Thanks!
It seems that the folder in question may have been the issue. Either the file/folder names were too long or they had non supported characters in them. The tar/untar finally worked! I am willing to bet a normal drag and drop copy would have worked fine as well if I didnt have that one weird folder in there.
now that everything is copied over successfully I have pointed iTunes to the NAS…and it is saying there are missing songs. Very odd issue - for example it says it cannot find the folder ‘of Montreal’ but on the drive it is ‘Of Montreal’ On the old drive it is ‘Of Montreal’ too so I dont understand why this isnt working.
Maybe its best to start a new topic for this issue since its a bit different?