I am using Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop edition. My seagate drive is connected to the Ubuntu machine via the USB 3 port. I have total 3 traditional USB ports on my laptop. On all three ports I have the same issue - when copying files from Home folder to Seagate, the speed begins at 145 MB/s and then quickly drops to 0 MB/s within just few seconds. It begins copyin files at high speeds then quickly stops copying as the speed closes to zero transfer speed.
So alternatively I installed samba share on this Ubuntu machine and shared my Home folder to my local network.I am able to access Ubuntu Home folder from my windows laptop within the same local network, but when I try to transfer or copy over the files from ubuntu to windows the speed is super slow something like 50 kb/s. It would take forever to copy over large data.
I also tried borrowing a docking station that has the USB C port option to connect to my ubuntu machine. This idea also failed because the speed started high and then quickly dropped to zero speed file transfer.
I also tried installing vmware windows in the ubntu host. I tried accessing the seagate from inside the vm but issue remains the same. the file transfer hangs up and says that large hard disk needed which is something to do with how the vm is ssetup i guess.
Anyways I have run out of ideas on how to backup data from this ubntu machine to external hardd rive. Please advise any ideas
Thanks
z@zbook-lp:~$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 31Gi 1.6Gi 27Gi 28Mi 2.0Gi 29Gi
Swap: 31Gi 0B 31Gi
z@zbook-lp:~$ sysctl vm.swappiness
vm.swappiness = 60
z@zbook-lp:~$ swapon -s
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/nvme0n1p5 partition 33430524 0 -2
z@zbook-lp:~$ top
Tasks: 347 total, 1 running, 346 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
%Cpu(s): 0.1 us, 0.1 sy, 0.0 ni, 99.7 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.0 si, 0.0 st
MiB Mem : 32037.9 total, 28288.8 free, 1705.4 used, 2043.7 buff/cache
MiB Swap: 32647.0 total, 32647.0 free, 0.0 used. 29840.9 avail Mem
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
1103 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.7 0.0 0:26.56 irq/141-nvidia
4571 z 20 0 12340 4312 3452 R 0.7 0.0 0:01.07 top
1105 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.3 0.0 0:09.34 nv_queue
1626 root 20 0 186252 59836 36156 S 0.3 0.2 0:47.54 Xorg
1795 z 20 0 4468244 340796 120884 S 0.3 1.0 1:25.47 gnome-shell
2884 z 20 0 16.3g 101984 82416 S 0.3 0.3 0:04.63 chrome
3452 z 20 0 20.4g 158084 98240 S 0.3 0.5 3:27.71 chrome
4532 z 20 0 817880 54404 39056 S 0.3 0.2 0:05.38 gnome-terminal-
1 root 20 0 169928 11688 8196 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.22 systemd
2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd
3 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_gp
4 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 rcu_par_gp
6 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/0:0H-kblockd
9 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 mm_percpu_wq
10 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 ksoftirqd/0
11 root 20 0 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:01.76 rcu_sched
12 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 migration/0
13 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 idle_inject/0
14 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/0
15 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/1
16 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 idle_inject/1
17 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 migration/1
18 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/1
20 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/1:0H-kblockd
21 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/2
22 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 idle_inject/2
23 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 migration/2
24 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/2
26 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/2:0H-kblockd
27 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/3
28 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 idle_inject/3
29 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.23 migration/3
30 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/3
32 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/3:0H-kblockd
33 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/4
34 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 idle_inject/4
35 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 migration/4
36 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/4
38 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/4:0H-kblockd
39 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/5
40 root -51 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 idle_inject/5
41 root rt 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.22 migration/5
42 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 ksoftirqd/5
44 root 0 -20 0 0 0 I 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kworker/5:0H-kblockd
45 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 cpuhp/6
z@zbook-lp:~$ grep -i Seagate Portable Drive /var/log/syslog*
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:17:55 zbook-lp kernel: [25225.613528] usb 4-2.3.1: Manufacturer: Seagate
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:17:56 zbook-lp kernel: [25225.671427] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Portable 0712 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:18:08 zbook-lp ntfs-3g[33774]: Mounted /dev/sda1 (Read-Write, label "Seagate Portable Drive", NTFS 3.1)
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:18:08 zbook-lp systemd[1]: Finished Clean the /media/z/Seagate Portable Drive mount point.
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:18:08 zbook-lp udisksd[770]: Mounted /dev/sda1 at /media/z/Seagate Portable Drive on behalf of uid 1000
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp udisksd[770]: Cleaning up mount point /media/z/Seagate Portable Drive (device 8:1 is not mounted)
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp ntfs-3g[33774]: Unmounting /dev/sda1 (Seagate Portable Drive)
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp systemd[1]: media-z-Seagate\x20Portable\x20Drive.mount: Succeeded.
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp systemd[965]: media-z-Seagate\x20Portable\x20Drive.mount: Succeeded.
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp systemd[1545]: media-z-Seagate\x20Portable\x20Drive.mount: Succeeded.
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp systemd[1]: Stopping Clean the /media/z/Seagate Portable Drive mount point...
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp systemd[1]: clean-mount-point@media-z-Seagate\x20Portable\x20Drive.service: Succeeded.
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 13:26:58 zbook-lp systemd[1]: Stopped Clean the /media/z/Seagate Portable Drive mount point.
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 16:56:27 zbook-lp kernel: [12062.853501] usb 2-5: Manufacturer: Seagate
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 16:56:27 zbook-lp kernel: [12062.881178] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Seagate Portable 0712 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 16:56:40 zbook-lp ntfs-3g[5209]: Mounted /dev/sda1 (Read-Write, label "Seagate Portable Drive", NTFS 3.1)
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 16:56:40 zbook-lp systemd[1]: Finished Clean the /media/z/Seagate Portable Drive mount point.
/var/log/syslog:Sep 2 16:56:40 zbook-lp udisksd[793]: Mounted /dev/sda1 at /media/z/Seagate Portable Drive on behalf of uid 1000
