On 24/03/15 03:59, Brad Beahm wrote:
Now my big question is how do I take the 3,951 audio files from
previous drive's var/snd/ and put them on the new system.
you need to be able to get into a command line window and to become root
>su
[password]
#
If the old /var/snd is on a running system you are going to have to
share /var/snd on the local network and copy the wav files across to
your new system
using nfs you share the original /var/snd and using mount on the new
machine you make the files accessible by creating a temporary directory
and mounting the remote /var/snd at this point.
(I think you may have done this so won't expand on nfs sharing here.)
depending on the network speed this may take some time
If you can pull the drive out of your old system and install it
[temporarily] in the new machine the copy will go faster.
either way your old /var/snd needs to be mounted somewhere you can 'see'
it from your new machine.
In an ideal world you should be able to copy the files from the old
drive to the new drive using cp on the command line.
You get over permissions issues by doing this as root.
However cp has a limit on the number of files it can handle.
rsync is the better option
rsync -av [path to old /var/snd]/var/snd/ [path to new /var/snd/]
You need the trailing '/' on the source directory to avoid creating a
new directory inside the new one. Read man rsync.
once the files are copied across you need to set their permissions to
those of rd on the new machine
#chmod 775 /var/snd/*
#chown rd:rivendell /var/snd/*
for some reason the owner and group on /var/snd files have changed
between releases. I always look and see what the system used for cart 99999
this should get you started. I have a backup of /var/snd that I use to
build new systems. Using esata and an external drive caddy it's fast and
keeps the main system frombeing overloaded. 3k tracks will copy in no time
all the best
Robert Jeffares
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