Betty,
Please use the rsync command as Ed stated.
rsync (with the -a option in particular) takes care of some "gotchas"
that the cp command can sometimes produce if you don't remember how to
use it just right.
betty wrote:
> i'm sure i know less than you, the advice was to use dd. is one better
> than the other?? i'm willing to use whatever will work to copy my home
> dir to the new computer so that all my settings are the same.
>
> what would be the command for cp?
> thx
> betty i
>
> Eric Cope wrote:
>> please excuse my ignorance, why would cp -r not work?
>> Eric
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, betty <nicepenguin@webcanine.com
>> <mailto:nicepenguin@webcanine.com>> wrote:
>>
>> 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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