Re: [PLUG] Large data transfer

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

On Friday 28 July 2006 10:45, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> Isaac wrote:
> > footnotes:
> > 1- There exist several methods of mounting ext2/3 drives under
> > Windows. Unfortunately I've lost track of the one I've used before,
> > but Google has several helpful hits. If the drive is NTFS formatted,
> > you're probably out of luck for mounting it directly under linux, it
> > looks like NTFS support under linux is still read-only.
>
> At least SUSE now ships a NTFS r/w capable driver, I'm sure others do as
> well.  I haven't used it in write mode myself, so can't claim how robust
> it is.  It's been around for a year or two though, so I know it's
> getting better.

What if I assume a NTFS problem, boot with Knoppix, and do the transfer from 
the recipient computer?

This is a one time thing.  Am I understand that the main advantage of rsync 
over cp is in subsequent incremental backups?
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