Trouble with cp

Post by **lilrofl** » 30 Apr 2009, 19:10

I'm having trouble getting the syntax right for copying a large number of folders from one external hard drive to another.

Any help would be magnanimously appreciated, thanx.

Post by **lilrofl** » 30 Apr 2009, 19:39

cp /hd1/* /hd2/ -pr

this looks like it's working, real slow though lol... should be able to know for certain in a few hours

Post by **Big-E** » 01 May 2009, 00:50

rsync

http://www.samba.org/rsync/examples.html

Check that out, you should be able to proceed from that.

Post by **bad_brain** » 01 May 2009, 05:47

hm, why not creating a .tar.gz archive first and then extract it on the target drive? should be faster...

Post by **lilrofl** » 01 May 2009, 13:55

rsync... it took a while to figure out, but it worked well over the course of 7 hours. I was going to scrap the whole process and attempt the tar.gz approach, but I didn't have anywhere near that kind of free space on the source drive, and I didn't know if it was possible to zip/unzip on the fly... and if it was possible if there would be that much of a performance gain through USB to USB transfer.

All things being equal, my data is successfully backed up and my old external can take a dump on me if it would like

Thanks for your help.

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Trouble with cp

Trouble with cp

Nevermind

rsync