Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

All of the laptop's data has now been moved to the desktop system over
the network.  I still don't see how I can move the data back to the
laptop after reformatting it.  Is buying the laptop hard drive adapter
the only way?

- Grant

On 1/26/07, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really appreciate all the advice.  I have about 11 of 12 GBs copied
> from the laptop to the desktop system now via the tar|ssh method so I
> guess I'll let that complete.  Once it's done, how can I move the data
> back over the network to the reformatted laptop?
>
> - Grant
>
> On 1/26/07, Matthias Bethke <matthias@towiski.de> wrote:
> > Hi Grant,
> > on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote:
> > > My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system
> > > via tar and ssh.
> >
> > That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you
> > have a filesystem
> > error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If the HD is not
> > about to die, tar (or rsync as Neil mentioned) is much better.
> >
> > > When I ran rc this morning, I saw that ssh started so it must have
> > > stopped some time overnight as it usually does.  The laptop was still
> > > running the tar | ssh command I had started the night before.  Could
> > > the desktop be missing some of the laptop's data since the desktop
> > > wasn't running ssh all night, or would it "catch up" now that ssh is
> > > running?
> >
> > If the connection didn't break on the laptop side (ssh|tar reporting a
> > broken pipe), you should be fine.
> >
> > cheers!
> > 	Matthias
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