Re: home dir to usb

>     I installed the new drive into the new computer. I'm going to transfer
>     the home directory to a usb drive and then to the new computer.
>     This is the command i tried and the result i got.

>      stormy@stormy-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/home/stormy of=/dev/sdc1
>     bs=1024k
>     [sudo] password for stormy:
>     dd: reading `/home/stormy': Is a directory
>     0+0 records in
>     0+0 records out
>     0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.000942499 s, 0.0 kB/s
>     stormy@stormy-desktop:~$

>     What is wrong there? i am such an idiot on command line stuff. aghhh.
>     Thanks.
>     betty i.

>     Joseph Sinclair wrote:
>     > First, I'd definitely recommend going with a new SATA drive on
>     the new machine.  You'll find everything just works better and the
>     added reliability of a newer drive makes for a lot less stress
>     (although regular and frequent backups are definitely the best
>     peace-of-mind tool).
>     >
>     > For the data transfer there are 3 simple options:
>     > 1) If you have, or can borrow, a large enough USB drive (flash
>     or HDD), I'd copy everything (I prefer rsync, but dd is a good
>     choice too) to the USB drive, then copy from that to the new computer.
>     > 2) Temporarily install the old drive in the new machine on the
>     ATA (CDROM) interface (if the new machine has an old-style ATA
>     interface for the CD drives), and copy the data from one drive to
>     the other (definitely use rsync here).
>     > 3) Connect the two machines to an ethernet router/hub and use
>     rsync to transfer the files over the ethernet connection.

>     >
>     > However you end up doing the transfer, I'd definitely recommend
>     retaining a separate backup of all of your personal data
>     (pictures, documents, music, videos, etc...) as part of the
>     process, if at all possible.

>     >
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