home dir to usb

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>>  stormy at stormy-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/home/stormy of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1024k
You DON'T want to do that...  (long explanation, do your reading)
"cp -r ..." would work but my preference is:
rsync -av --progress --checksum /my-source/ /my-destination
YMMV...
ET 

 


Eric Cope writes: 

> 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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