On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:48:02 +1200, you wrote: > >On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 15:41:06 +1200 >Hamish McBrearty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> Since my server crashed and burned rather spectacularly on Friday I've >> rebuilt it as a single boot Gentoo box. I've been able to get rid of some >> legacy stuff, but I have one thing left. I have a 120Gb hard drive that >> contains 27Gb of movies, music and a shared Portage tree. However, due to >> my using this when I was weaning myself off Windows it's a Fat32 >> partition. I'd like to make it something a bit more robust and secure like >> XFS or JFS. >> >> What would be the best way to move all of this data onto my desktop >> computer (the only one with enough space) and then back after I've >> reformatted the drive? Rsync? scp? Huge tar file? > >rsync has no advantage over the others unless the data is going to >change over time. it'll just add time as your processor chugs thru the >algorithm > >I'd tend to tar it up, but scp would work too.
scp will use _much_ more cpu than tar, and you don't need the security between local machines. Depending on the cpu power, it may be worth gzipping and tarring it across to another local machine ( or bzip2 if you've got a really big one (: )... especially so if you've got a slow network. Mounting via nfs/samba? Can't comment on the relative performance but this is the way I'd go. Personally, I'd use ext3 formatting, but a lot of people I work with are trying to get me converted to xfs ( but then, they're debianites ). I've personally lost data using Reiserfs, and so won't touch it with a bargepole ever again. Steve > >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> Hamish McBrearty MCSE MCSA >> Network Engineer >> Rangi Ruru Girls' School >> 59 Hewitts Road >> Christchurch >> NEW ZEALAND >> Ph 03 355-6099 >> Fax 03 355-6027 >> CELL 021 999770 >> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> -------------------------------------------------- >>
