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

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Boleslaw Ciesielski
<bolek-mythtv at curl.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Never used the --inplace but I do like to add the
--remove-source-files to delete the source files that have been
successfully sent.

John