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Most efficient way to move files between shares
I have a large quantity of media on my ReadyNAS NV+ which I want to move from share A to share B. Using my PC to do this is very tedious (it's estimating nearly 20hrs to move about 200gb) - am I ri...
cp is not recursive, and cp -R has other issues. Most professional SA's use tar or cpio to mass move files. cpio does a better job retaining permissions, extended attributes and is recursive.
If you have the root ssh addon, login to the NAS thru SSH, and assuming the old volume is /c, and the new is /d, run:
cd /c
find . | cpio -pdmv /d
Nothing over the network can compete with this.
If you don't want to keep the window open, run it as: nohup find . |cpio -pdmv /d > /tmp/outfile 2>&1 &
If you have the root ssh addon, login to the NAS thru SSH, and assuming the old volume is /c, and the new is /d, run:
cd /c
find . | cpio -pdmv /d
Nothing over the network can compete with this.
If you don't want to keep the window open, run it as: nohup find . |cpio -pdmv /d > /tmp/outfile 2>&1 &
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