RE: [PLUG] Large data transfer

["George Gallen" <ggallen@slackinc.com>]

Also, if you really wanted to get "fast" you could always remove
the hard drive from the windows machine, and install it into the
linux machine. Boot, and just use cp for a drive to drive copy.

But first you will need to setup a linux partition on the windows
machine's drive before doing either.

Or just get a USB drive conversion kit, and put the windows drive
in that and copy from the linux computer ($30 investment).

Whichever method you use, direct drive, ethernet or USB drive, look
into using rdiff-backup, it requires python. If you have the extra
space, it can be set to do incremental backups as well, or just a 
full backup.

George

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org
> [mailto:plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org]On Behalf Of K.S. Bhaskar
> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:54 AM
> To: art.alexion@verizon.net; Philadelphia Linux User's Group 
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> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Large data transfer
> 
> 
> Do you have, or can you borrow or buy, a USB hard drive?  I picked up
> a 160GB USB hard drive at an office supply store for around $80 on
> clearance some months ago.
> 
> If the two computers are close together, nothing beats a crossover
> cable with something like scp3 on Windows.
> 
> -- Bhaskar
> 
> On 7/28/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> > I want to transfer ~120 GB of data from a Linux computer to 
> a new computer
> > with preloaded windows.  I don't want to remove windows, 
> but installing Linux
> > on another partition is a possibility.  Knoppix is another. 
>  Preferably,
> > though, I prefer not to mess with the existing software/OS 
> as the owner is
> > not familiar with anything else.
> >
> > The simplest way, I suppose is to connect it, as is, via 
> the existing samba
> > network.
> >
> > Alternatively, I could boot Knoppix and connect via NFS.
> >
> > Which is more efficient?
> >
> > Once connected, should I use simply 'cp' or 'rsync'?  I 
> have never used rsync,
> > but I understand it is designed for these types of situations.
> >
> >
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