Need to copy a 200GB directory

Charles Farinella cfarinella at appropriatesolutions.com
Mon Jun 26 15:22:21 EDT 2017


Yeah, dd is wrong, I'll play with cp and rsync and pick one.

Thanks.

--charlie

Charlie Farinella
Systems Administrator
Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
1-603-924-6079

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:

> 200 GB on locally mounted filesystems just isn't all *THAT* much.  I'm not
> quite sure how you'd use 'dd', but cp or rsync should do the trick just
> fine.  Note that rsync has the added benefit of being able to, essentially,
> start from where you failed -- but I usually reserve that for network file
> transfers that take long enough I'm worried a brownout or something might
> interrupt it.
>
> $.02,
>
> -Ken
>
>
>
> On 2017-06-26 15:11, Charles Farinella wrote:
>
>> We need to copy a large (200+GB) directory from one filesystem to
>> another, both locally mounted.
>>
>> I'm unsure as to what I should use to do this, cp, rsync, dd?
>>
>> Any suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --charlie
>>
>> Charlie Farinella
>> Systems Administrator
>> Appropriate Solutions, Inc.
>> 1-603-924-6079
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