Hi,

I need to copy files between my A1200T and my other A1200. I have both units connected via TCP/IP (Miami). Does anyone know of the best way to copy files between them using the existing TCP/IP connection?I need to move alot of data, mainly games. Both Units are running OS 3.x. Software examples such as FTP or others would be helpful. Thanks.

Drewlio77

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Term on aminet should work & I'd guess a null modem cable between the 2 systems. Run Term on both systems, one send, other receive. Never tried it myself.

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@sundown

Thanks for the suggestion but I would prefer a TCP/IP solution for speed reasons. I need to move about 600M of data.

Drewlio77

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Install FTPd to another Amiga and use AmFTP to copy files over.

Last edited by itix on 03-Jun-2012 at 07:26 AM.

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Thanks. I actually figured it out with a simular solution... RC-FTPd on the A1200 Tower and FTPMount on my regular A1200. Works great. I get about 200Kb/s. Nothing amazing but better than PARnet or other serial transfers :)

Drewlio77

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there is "transfer", still developped and available from Aminet

@Drewlio77

You could go with netFS also available from aminet. As i recall it's not that difficult to setup and works great, it mount partition from one amiga to another amiga. very useful for transferring large file.

Rick

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I can swear by netfs. Last week I used it to transfer around 30 gigabytes from my AmigaOne to the new X1000.

Once set up, my commands looked like this:

Apps:netfs/netmount AmigaOne work1 asRmte1 HANDLER L:netfs-handler

Then a disk icon shows up on the workbench. Use it just as you would anydevice. The speed certainly exceeded 200K/sec between these 2 machines.

When all done, DISMOUNT asRmte1: FORCE

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@ggw

Awesome. I shall give it a try.

Drewlio77

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@sundown

Null modem? Over serial? For a large amount of data? Ha! LOL!

I admire your enthusiasm having never tried it yourself. But you don't want too.

In any case, you didn't answer the question as asked, unless you were talking about a null modem emulator over TCP/IP?

Last edited by Hypex on 04-Jun-2012 at 03:22 PM.

I would think the fastest way to dump information between two A1200s, is to use the hard drive header and at least one dual drive cable?

3.5 inch, laptop, CF card, do a straight dump accross, remove from source machine, lace in destination machine?

I used to do it for two machines in different countries.

Never under estimate the bandwidth of a carrier pidgeon with a stack of microSD cards, or a truck full of drives.

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@Hypex

I use to use parnet and moved hard drive partitions from my 1200 to a CD 32 and it was plenty fast enough.

Now I just upload to my server and download it using AMFTP

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Hypex wrote: @sundown Null modem? Over serial? For a large amount of data? Ha! LOL! I admire your enthusiasm having never tried it yourself. But you don't want too. In any case, you didn't answer the question as asked, unless you were talking about a null modem emulator over TCP/IP?

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ggw wrote: I can swear by netfs. Last week I used it to transfer around 30 gigabytes from my AmigaOne to the new X1000.

Amiganetfs is great for certain tasks. Really easy to setup with no external software installing if you're using AmiTCP, mounts any of the other Amiga's devices, preserves Amiga's protection bits etc (which makes it great for syncing two identical Amiga systems etc).... but it's pretty slow on my machines (68k Amigas, MorphOS machines). Do you have any tip to make it faster? It certainly isn't fast enough for big amounts of data here. Only good for syncing and small copying.

Anyway, I think FTP is the fastest protocol for big amounts (unless you can use some IDE device, USB or PCMCIA solution). And transfer speeds highly depends of the CPU used (at least on 68k). You can expect around 200-400k with 030/50 depending what TCP/IP stack you use. 600k - >1MB on 060 depending of the NIC and stack etc.

@Jsixis

Over parallel yes it would be faster, at least 8 times as fast I'd assume. So a lot more bearable.

Last edited by Hypex on 27-Aug-2012 at 04:18 PM.

@Hypex

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Hypex wrote: @Jsixis Over parallel yes it would be faster, at least 8 times as fast II'd assume. So a lot more bearable.

I did mine on the serial ports max it out at something like 112,000 baud, it wasn't memory card fast but the files moved as fast as the video driver could write them on a screen.
That was back in the 90's, I still have the 3x5 spiral card book that has all of those shell scriptic commands I could never memorize.

@Drewlio77

Forget about TCP/IP its too modern, use floppy disks, or SerNet or ParNet

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@Jsixis

Wow! On the Amiga serial? It was said the Amiga hardware could not do those speeds without errors as it wasn't designed to do them.

I bought a Whippet card for my Amiga for that very reason.

Last edited by Hypex on 16-Sep-2012 at 04:01 PM.

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@Hypex

I just did an aminet search and all I could find was a re written version of the old parnet program.
If I ever get my Amigas back up properly I'll have to download the new version and see if it is as fast.

I was using in in 1995, I remember it because I was at the September Dayton Hamfest with Amicon and I had a Windows 95 Demo running on my CD32 system as a joke. (amazing how many people fell for that)
I was using parnet to copy hard drive partitions over to an Amiga 1200 with an 030 I had bought that morning. I still have that serial cable since the CD32 was 9 pin and the 1200 was 25 pin, it was hard finding serial cables that would actually work back then.

As for the Amiga not being designed for it? Then why was that speed an option, have a look at your serial prefs sometime. If it isn't maxed out, move it up, the Amiga can handle those speeds just fine. The hard drives is what slows them down.

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Hypex wrote: @Jsixis Wow! On the Amiga serial? It was said the Amiga hardware could no do those speeds without errors as it wansn't designed to do them. I bought a Whippet card for my Amiga for that very reason.