[Avid-L2] Re: Copying files on a Mac using a network logged in computer?

Well I did it and it works. Even when my laptop got hung the copy still went through. There's no way the data could be coming through the ethernet to my laptop and back so I guess it's more the traffic cop approach. Similarly using team viewer people here routinely copy files from home by logging via team viewer to one of the edit computers on the san and they copy files from one san volume to another. Here again there would be no way that would work if the data had to flow through the remote logged in computer. I didn't think of our use of the team viewer here until after I posted. Whether it saves any processing power on the edit computer is probably negligible but I don't know for sure.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Rainer Standke <lists@...> wrote:
>
> John,
>
> my understanding is that the copied data will have to travel the
> network twice, to and and from your laptop. Depending on what else is
> going on, the biggest bottleneck in yoru copy scenario, no matter
> whether local or remote, is the drive i/o connectivity. I would do
> this copy locally, and expect your NLE to work just fine with media
> from any drive that is not a source or destination in the copy
> operation. Wouldn't expect anything to play well from the two FW drives.
>
> Rainer Standke
> XMiL Workflow Tools
> http://www.xmil.biz
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>
>
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 13:53 , John Moore wrote:
>
> > I have 2 fw 800 drives hooked to my MacPro SNDC editing computer. I
> > can log into the edit computer from my Macbook Pro laptop. Once
> > logged in as the administrator I get access to all the drives
> > mounted on the edit computer FW 800 and SanMP volumes. If I wanted
> > to copy from one FW 800 to the other FW 800 and I use the laptop to
> > initiate the copy would that ease any burden on the MacPro edit
> > computer? Would all the data then have to go over the ethernet to
> > my laptop then back over ethernet to the edit computer then back to
> > the destination FW 800 drive? I guess the root of my question is
> > when copying data on a mac is the os just a traffic cop or does it
> > get involved like a sobriety check point, which I finally went
> > through last week only 9 years to late for them to catch me.
> >
> > John Moore
> >
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