Mark Lanctot;201452 Wrote: 
> I simply used cp -r * to my newly formatted drive.

This should work, but I think you need -p if you want to preserve
timestamps, permissions and ownership.  Did you do this as root, or
some other user?

> However my File Browser window gave a rather alarming description -
> -some of the contents could not be read-.

Not sure what that means.  What file browser is this?  Could be
ownership or permission related.

>  rsync -t -r [source] [dest]

Again, you might want to try -a which will preserve timestamps,
ownership, etc.  In any case, there's not much damage you can do unless
you accidentally mix up [source] and [dest]


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