[Durham] copying files from drive to drive

[David Beer]

Hi Andy

rsync is really quite straight forward easy and powerful to use. A 
common set of options i use are avhP. Quite simply they mean the following:

a - archive this much better when transfering files either copying or 
via ssh ftp etc.
v - verbose prints information out that is usual to see what it is doing
h - human readable, this is strange but gives the numbers and file sizes 
in a form you can understand easily.
P - progress prints the progress so that you know how far you have got.

Test on a small range of files first to make sure that your command is 
correct and gives you the output you want. I would also recomend if 
copying lots of files that you do so in stages break it down. There are 
some nice tutorials out there on the web and don't be afraid to use the 
man page some good examples in there as well.

Thanks

David
On 19/07/12 17:14, Andrew Glass wrote:
> Hi David
>
> Could you give me a few pointers please?  Never used either of those.  Off to google I go now too :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>
> On 19 Jul 2012, at 17:12, David Beer wrote:
>
>> On 19/07/12 16:42, Andrew Glass wrote:
>>> Hey
>>>
>>> Could you help me please?
>>>
>>> Im in the process of building an LVM store however I need to copy every folder from a normal ext4 drive to the LV.  What would you say would be the best way to do this?  Never done it before.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Andy
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>> Hi Andy
>>
>> It depends on if you want to copy the permissions as well or just the files. But I would suggest looking at rsync or scp. If you need any help just ask.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> David
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