Using Live CD to copy entire C drive to a NAS box

[chrislynch8]

Hi,

We do do work for liquidators and we collect all the data in an office. We have been using Knoppix to boot into the PC/Server and copy the entire HHD to a USB External Harddrive. We are now testing the use a a NAS box. In the Knoppix Live cd we can mount the NAS share and we are using rsync to copy the localdrive to the NAS box. We are getting a "Cannot Allocate Memory (12)" error after a while.

What does this refer to exactly. Is it the memory on the PC or would this be the memory on the NAS box???

Would anyone have any idea????

Rgds
Chris

[patelbhavesh]

What does this refer to exactly. Is it the memory on the PC or would this be the memory on the NAS box???

Would anyone have any idea????

Chris, most likely the memory error would be from the PC itself.Im no expert on this but feel that since knoppix is running in memory on the PC at some point it runs out of memory for the copying portion.

[chip.ling]

Hi,

We do do work for liquidators and we collect all the data in an office. We have been using Knoppix to boot into the PC/Server and copy the entire HHD to a USB External Harddrive. We are now testing the use a a NAS box. In the Knoppix Live cd we can mount the NAS share and we are using rsync to copy the localdrive to the NAS box. We are getting a "Cannot Allocate Memory (12)" error after a while.

What does this refer to exactly. Is it the memory on the PC or would this be the memory on the NAS box???

Would anyone have any idea????

Rgds
Chris

Chris, What is the OS on the NAS box? I guess it is Windows.

If it is the case, check the Windows side from the Event Viewer, look for the srv related errors. You may find something like this:

The Server's configuration parameter "IRPStackSize" is too
small for the server to use a local device. Please
increase the value of this parameter.

If this is the case, you just hit a bug from the Windows side. The error message is misleading since the error is from the smbclient side.

One of the quick fix you may try is to reboot the Windows and re-try. Most of the case, it will solve the problem.

If not, check out the Microsoft site and see if they have any remedy.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/177078

Good luck and keep us in the loop if the problem get fixed.

Rgds,
Chip