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.
Trouble with cp
Nevermind
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
this looks like it's working, real slow though lol... should be able to know for certain in a few hours
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rsync
http://www.samba.org/rsync/examples.html
Check that out, you should be able to proceed from that.
http://www.samba.org/rsync/examples.html
Check that out, you should be able to proceed from that.
rsync
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.
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.