[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi,

I need to transfer massive amounts of video from one Ubuntu box to another,
and I wanted to get some advice before messing with anything.  So I would
appreciate any tips you might have, particularly as to traps for the unwary,
because I have a knack for falling into such traps.  heh.

I am moving data from a Gutsy 32 bit install to a Hardy 32 bit install.
More details on the specs below.

I guess it is probably obvious (not sure) that ssh and fish is probably not
going to cut it, as it seems I am only getting 700 kbs or so over my subnet,
and I really should be using 1394 (firewire) anyway.  The link below is an
old article from 2004 which says that I might need to recompile my kernel,
if my distro does not support 1394, but that is a really old article and
Ubuntu has come a long way since then.  Most important, I would prefer to
avoid messing with low-level stuff like the kernel, because I tend to goof
things up whenever and wherever possible when technical matters are
involved.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/articles/Jeremys_Magazine_Articles/Playing_with_Firewire

Both of the boxes are less than 6 months old.  They were both built by a
friend.  One box has 1.5 TB of storage, and the other has 16 TB of storage.
I want to move data from the 1.5 TB beast (affectionately known as the
renderbeast, or rb for short) to the 16 TB machine (affectionately known as
the TeraByte Beast or tbb for short).  Below are the specs for these two
machines:

rb's firewire specs:
*-firewire
                description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
                product: TSB12LV26 IEEE-1394 Controller (Link)
                vendor: Texas Instruments
                physical id: 6
                bus info: pci at 0000:02:06.0
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=32 maxlatency=4
mingnt=3 module=ohci1394

tbb's specs:
*-firewire
                description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
                product: TSB43AB23 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
                vendor: Texas Instruments
                physical id: e
                bus info: pci at 0000:06:0e.0
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm ohci bus_master cap_list
                configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=128 maxlatency=4
mingnt=2 module=ohci1394

Thanks in advance for any tips!
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