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I really appreciate all the advice. I have about 11 of 12 GBs copied |
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from the laptop to the desktop system now via the tar|ssh method so I |
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guess I'll let that complete. Once it's done, how can I move the data |
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back over the network to the reformatted laptop? |
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- Grant |
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On 1/26/07, Matthias Bethke <matthias@×××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi Grant, |
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> on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote: |
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> > My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system |
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> > via tar and ssh. |
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> That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you |
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> have a filesystem |
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> error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If the HD is not |
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> about to die, tar (or rsync as Neil mentioned) is much better. |
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> > When I ran rc this morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have |
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> > stopped some time overnight as it usually does. The laptop was still |
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> > running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before. Could |
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> > the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop |
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> > wasn't running ssh all night, or would it "catch up" now that ssh is |
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> > running? |
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> If the connection didn't break on the laptop side (ssh|tar reporting a |
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> broken pipe), you should be fine. |
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> cheers! |
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> Matthias |
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