Labarum wrote: > A newbie question: > > I have put a lot of work into tidying up and increasing my flac library > to use with my new setup using an rPi4 running PiCorePlayer. My library > is on the Pi on a 128GB flash drive, and yes, I have it backed up to my > Chromebook and to a 1TB USB drive. > > I have been pulling the flash drive out of the Pi, and putting it into > the Chromebook to copying the content onto the Chromebook then onto the > iTB hard drive. > > If I were to plug the 1TB drive into the second USB 3 socket on the PI I > presume I could use Samba controlled from the Chromebook to copy files > from the flash drive to the hard drive. Can I make the files copy > directly within the Pi from one drive to the other, or will Samba fetch > them to the Chromebook then send them back to the Pi - which would take > . . . for . . . ever?
I have 2 drives attached to my Pi/pCP, I can copy from one drive to another easily in Windows File explorer. No problem. *LMS server/study player - LMS 8.3.0 *Pi4B 4GB/NanoSound ONE case/pCP 8.1.0 - 75K library, playlists & LMS cache on Sata SSD (ntfs) *Lounge* - Pi2/pCP 8.1.0 > HiFiBerry DIGI+ > Topping E30 > AVI DM5 *Dining Room* - Echo Show 8 *Garage* - Squeezebox Touch > Edifier *Spares* - 1xSB Radio, 1xSB3, 6xRPi, 1xDAC32, 1xCORE32 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114828 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
