From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HAqfr-0007Re-Us for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:45:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0RGhUCv030280; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:43:30 GMT Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.234]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0RGcOnN024386 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:38:25 GMT Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s1so912983nze for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:38:24 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ClKD4uyxf6CUDDAMt6gyVpqF9V6cKFDDIdjJ5NILxPwUczDR6FeMtEccgVFnruD+Qr7Gu7SvwmFlgfqYgAIsCmVlLA0QspHknocsV6a06QQ8tOoHtWHROjLgIJGG7kWQs8Nm7d7qXEMxP7dO6jScFgBRpGhQDlkX9Ied/V3zNwA= Received: by 10.114.110.1 with SMTP id i1mr84470wac.1169915903744; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:38:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.174.18 with HTTP; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:38:23 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49bf44f10701270838k35e7f0d3v457ff4432aee21ac@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:38:23 -0800 From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10701261753n3502611ds8aa6a63fd4102506@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10701250820n4ad79b8dudcdba5a8e584545@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10701251020m48feed3cu87cd22596ba63fb3@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10701251028n5813295cycdd61aea0cc08347@mail.gmail.com> <200701252016.40150.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> <8cd1ed20701251319s4671c94erbccf85a47d0a2420@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10701260947s32593b13p602f77f58f2db557@mail.gmail.com> <20070126224304.GD11364@huxley> <49bf44f10701261753n3502611ds8aa6a63fd4102506@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 885d8efa-1531-42ec-964d-16d0acb0563f X-Archives-Hash: f498a64daf362363726133bc9366b4fb 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 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 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 > > -- > > I prefer encrypted and signed messages. KeyID: FAC37665 > > Fingerprint: 8C16 3F0A A6FC DF0D 19B0 8DEF 48D9 1700 FAC3 7665 > > > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list