[svlug] help transfering data over 1394 cable

[Christian Einfeldt]

hi

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu>
wrote:

> Christian Einfeldt wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Not at all obvious to me.  Assuming you have gigabit ethernet


Okay, this is interesting.  Maybe it is an issue with the switch / hub
between the two machines.  I have a Netgear en108tp hub.  Maybe that's the
problem.  Not sure.  Here is an image and specs on that puppy:

http://kbserver.netgear.com/products/EN108TP.asp


> (I'd be
> surprised if a box built in the last 6 months doesn't), it will easily
> be faster than firewire (you appear to be using the 400Mbps version of
> firewire from your specs).  So you either want to 1) figure out why
> fish/scp is slow, and fix it, or (likely easier) 2) use another network
> transport like NFS, FTP, or SMB to transfer the files.


Okay, maybe my problem is that I should use some other transport.  Could you
tell me how I might do that?  I am a fairly simple end user.  I only know
about 20 CLI commands or so.  I have been using Linux since 2001, but it has
been a long slow learning curve.  Still, I am determined to do the entire
Digital Tipping Point film on FOSS.  It has worked fairly well so far, as we
have 59 hours of cc by-SA footage up on the Internet Archive's Digital
Tipping Point Video Collection, all captured, edited, compressed, and
uploaded with FOSS:

http://digitaltippingpoint.com/wiki/index.php?title=From_Tape_to_Archive

The IA DTP VC is here:

http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint


> As an aside, I'm not sure there are Linux tools to let you connect two
> firewire host controllers directly and copy files between hosts.  The
> hardware is almost certainly capable of it, but the configuration might
> be quite messy, even if the tools to do it do indeed exist.


Okay, messy = bad.  me want to avoid messy.

Thanks for your tips.
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