you should have been able to copy the contents of /var/snd/ on the old system onto the WD which will be mounted at /media/nameofdrive/
#cp /var/snd/*.wav /media/nameofdrive/someconvenientfoldername plan sleep etc the transfer will be glacial. when complete run ls -l /var/snd/*wav |wc -l and compare the number to ls -l /media/nameofdrive/someconvenientfoldername |wc -l we will assume if the numbers are the same the files are all ok unmount the WD from the old box and plug it in the new box where it will appear at /media/ and copy the files from the WD to /var/snd/ on the new box. cp /media/nameofdrive/someconvenientfoldername/*.wav /var/snd/ more time to relax. there may be some permission squawking # chmod 777 /media/nameofdrive/someconvenientfoldername/*.wav will shut that up You can get it going a bit faster by doing it over the network if you share /var/snd/ on the old box with nfs, and copy over the network. Depending on network speed the time compared to the WD will be 1/2 to 1/10. It occurs to me you may have /var/snd on the WD in which case you can just plug and copy However you won't have /var/snd on the old box so you are off for the duration. The network copy works better and I tend to use rsync because you can recover from any interruption and there seems to be a better throughput than cp which may be just me. Hope that's some help regards Robert Jeffares Big Valley Radio On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 02:48 +0000, Steve Atkins wrote: > I'm trading up to the Paravel appliance (2.5) and attempting to copy > carts from the ubuntu 10.04 machine (riv 2.2) via a WD usb drive. > While now learning the CentOS etiquette, I'm looking for the accepted > method of finding the drive and using it on this nice shiney new box. > > > I imagine this has been covered earlier, but I can't find it in the > archives. I have found lots of creative methods on-line but I'll > defer to your advice to be safe. > > > Many thanks! > > > -Steve > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
