I ended up doing rsync -a -P. Never thought of trying -v. A diff command showed everything transferred over fine. rsync was slow but diff was much, much slower.
diff helped out quite a bit. The first time I moved the data over I thought the destination drive was dying because I was hearing a horrendous rattling/grinding noise from inside the PC. I cut the power in the middle of the rsync operation when I heard this noise. (It turned out to be a loose power connector in the path of a thermostatically-controlled fan that didn't turn on right away!) diff correctly identified the files that were corrupted with an I/O error, and sure enough, there were problems playing back the flac files. I ended up redoing everything because I deleted it by accident (hint: if your drive is mounted in two places at once and you delete the older mount point, the new one gets deleted as well!) so all is good. The fact that diff pointed out the corrupt files the first time and didn't find anything the second time has put my mind at ease that rsync works. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35211 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
