Thanks so much, Robert. That rsync worked to move everything. My Rivendell can now play all my files.
And I learned something in the process! Much appreciated. Brad On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Robert Jeffares <[email protected] > wrote: > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev >
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