what is the best approach to move data from NTFS to HAMMER2 ?

[Harald Arnesen]

nacho Lariguet [06.08.2020 18:59]:

> I do know that right now HAMMER2 is considered rock-solid as stated by Matthew Dillon himself.
> 
> So I am starting to wonder which will be the best way to eventually move a lot of data I currently have on Windows 2008 R2 EE servers to dragonFly on HAMMER2. I can think of mainly two ways to accomplish this:
> 
> - over the network, provided I can manage to keep both servers running (ie: NOT repurposing the Windows one to dragonFly)
> - attaching the Windows drives offline to the dragonFly server as read-only using the NTFS driver
> 
> Which leads me to the question:
> 
> How good/stable is this driver right now (meaning read-only access) ? 
> 
> The newer post I found regarding NTFS is this one:
> 
> http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2017-April/357199.html
> 
> ... which asks for writing to NTFS which is not my case.
> 
> But overall, I didn't find anything regarding the pros and cons of using such driver.
> 
> My data consists of lots of small files (development, documentation, and the like); however there's also a lot of uncompressed media on the server with many files around 40 GB apiece.
>  
> Can you advise please ?

At least on Linux, NTFS-3G (using FUSE) is, in my experience, rock
solid. And if you mount read-only, what could go really go wrong? Use a
shasum program on both ends to check if the files are copied correctly.
-- 
Hilsen Harald