[mythtv-users] Adding new 1 Terabyte Drive and Moving existing Recordings

Boleslaw Ciesielski bolek-mythtv at curl.com
Tue Jan 6 19:32:28 UTC 2009


Michael T. Dean wrote:
> I'd highly recommend using rsync for copying the files.  In my years 
> with Myth, I've tried all sorts of things (from mv to cp to dd (on 
> individual files)--note you can /not/ use tar or cpio or zip--even in 
> passthrough mode--because they all have 2GiB file size limitations) and 
> rsync had a /lot/ of advantages.  You can use something as simple as
> 
> rsync --av --progress /mnt/video/* /new/drive/directory

Agreed on rsync recommendation. In addition, if you have very large 
files (like we all do :-)), it is useful to specify the --inplace switch 
so the copy can be restarted easily if interrupted.

Bolek


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