home dir to usb

[Eric Cope]

please excuse my ignorance, why would cp -r not work?
Eric

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:33 PM, betty <nicepenguin at 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 at 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 at 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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