Better yet:
rsync -av --progress --delete --checksum /home/stormy/ /somewhere
You will most likely not need --delete, but --checksum will fully verify the
integrity of the copy.
ET
kitepilot@kitepilot.com writes:
> Betty:
>>> stormy@stormy-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/home/stormy of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1024k
>>> dd: reading `/home/stormy': Is a directory
>
> What saved your bacon here is that dd will not read a directory, and it is
> NOT meant for what you want to do.
>
> My (FREE) advice:
> Do NOT ever use sudo (or root privileges) unless you *REALLY KNOW* what you
> are doing.
>
> You would have destroyed /dev/sdc1 if that had worked (although irrelevant
> in this case).
> You will need to "mount" /dev/sdc1 to a directory for rsync or cp to do its
> job.
>
> cp is a cantankerous "mirror-er", rsync will do better and the syntax is
> pretty similar.
>
> What you need to do:
> sudo mount -text3 /dev/sdc1 /somewhere
> rsync -av --progress --delete /home/stormy/ /somewhere
> Go get a pizza... :)
> BE CAREFUL with the SLASH (/) at the end of /home/stormy
> As it is, it means "copy everything INSIDE /home/stormy to /somewhere"
> Without it, it means "copy /home/stormy (the directory) to /somewhere"
>
> If you need a "taylor made" command you can:
> a) send me the information of your partitions and directories or,
> b) grant me access to your putter and I'll walk you through.
> ET
>
> PS: Do NOT ever use sudo (or root privileges) unless you *REALLY KNOW* what
> you are doing.
> :)
>
>
>
>
>
> Eric Shubert writes:
>
>> 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.
>>>> >
>>>> --
>>>> betty i.
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>>>> who care for dogs.
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>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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