home dir to usb

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

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 at kitepilot.com writes: 

> Betty:
>>> stormy at 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 at webcanine.com 
>>>> <mailto: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.
>>>>     >
>>>>     --
>>>>     betty i.
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>>>>     information for people
>>>>     who care for dogs.  
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>>>   
>>> 
>>   
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Eric 'shubes'  
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