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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: Copying /home
From:       Mark Misulich <munguanaweza () gmail ! com>
Date:       2023-03-07 18:38:28
Message-ID: 48d2a81f9d6a5aefabd69aa8c70261de0c5daeda.camel () gmail ! com
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On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 19:06 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2023-03-07 18:42, Per Jessen wrote:
> > Mark Misulich wrote:
> > 
> > > $ ssh lxmark@xxx.xxx.x.x  (enter)
> > > then yes
> > > then enter pasword for user on the destination computer
> > > $ rsync -av /home/mark/ lxmark@xxx.xxx.x.x:/home/lxmark
> > 
> > Hi Mark,
> > provided you have sshd running everywhere (usually it is the
> > default),
> > this ought to suffice:
> > 
> > On the source machine:
> > rsync -av --progress /home/mark/  
> > lxmark@des.ti.na.tion:/home/lxmark
> > 
> > --progress is just to see what is happening.
> > 
> > You can do a dry-run with '-n' beforehand, to see what will be
> > done.
> 
> 
> I normally use these options:
> 
> 
> OPTIONS="--archive --acls --xattrs --hard-links --sparse \
>        --stats --human-readable --checksum"
> 
> 
> rsync --del $OPTIONS     /from/   /to
> 
> 
> 
> This assumes running as root, so:
> 
> 
> rsync --del $OPTIONS     /home/   root@destination.localnet/home
> 
> 
> 
> I never use "--progress", it is way too verbose and makes any
> important 
> message to flow up fast. If I could restrict that progress output
> (and 
> only that) to a number of lines in the terminal, then that would be 
> different.
> 
> Instead I look with 'mc' at the destination directory.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers / Saludos,
> 
>                                 Carlos E. R.
>                                 (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)
> 
Hi,
thanks everyone for the tips and for looking over the bash commands.   

Something did go wrong, in the course of rsync writing files to the
destination computer.  I just found I had files written to home/lxmark,
then home/lxmark/lxmark, then home/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark, then
home/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark, then
home/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark, then
home/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark/lxmark. I shut off the transfer
when I found this.
   
I copied home on the source computer onto a usb stick before I tried
this, so I will be able to straighten it all out on the destination
computer eventually.  
  
If anyone has any ideas why my computer adventure has gone awry, let me
know so I can do better next time.

Thanks,
Mark
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