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by: pinnerite - Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:32 UTC

I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple.

I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb).

I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this:

# rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory /dev/sdb/home/some_directory

Should that work?

I would experiment but I cannot save back to the DVD.

TIA

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by: pinnerite - Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:35 UTC

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:32:00 +0000
pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:

> I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple.
>
> I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb).
>
> I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this:
>
> # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory /dev/sdb/home/some_directory
>
> Should that work?
>
> I would experiment but I cannot save back to the DVD.
>
> TIA
>

I forgot to mention that I would mount both drives on the virtual o/s probably on /mnt.

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by: Chris Elvidge - Mon, 13 Mar 2023 20:31 UTC

On 13/03/2023 16:35, pinnerite wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:32:00 +0000
> pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple.
>>
>> I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb).
>>
>> I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this:
>>
>> # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory /dev/sdb/home/some_directory
>>
>> Should that work?
>>
>> I would experiment but I cannot save back to the DVD.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
> I forgot to mention that I would mount both drives on the virtual o/s probably on /mnt.
>
>

rsync [options] /mnt/sda?/home/DIR /mnt/sdb?/home

will transfer all of DIR from /mnt/sda?/home to /mnt/sdb?/home
if /dev/sda? is mounted on /mnt/sda? and /dev/sdb? is mounted on
/mnt/sdb? where ? is the relevant partition number. options at minimum
should be -av (archive, verbose).
you will have to create the directories sda? and sdb? on /mnt
mkdir /mnt/sda? mkdir /mnt/sdb?

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by: Killadebug - Mon, 13 Mar 2023 22:00 UTC

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:35:23 +0000, pinnerite wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:32:00 +0000 pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple.
>>
>> I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb).
>>
>> I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this:
>>
>> # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory
>> /dev/sdb/home/some_directory
>>
>> Should that work?
>>
>> I would experiment but I cannot save back to the DVD.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> I forgot to mention that I would mount both drives on the virtual o/s
> probably on /mnt.

Try FreeFileSync or Grsync.

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by: stepore - Tue, 14 Mar 2023 02:24 UTC

On 3/13/23 09:32, pinnerite wrote:
> I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple.
>
> I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb).
>
> I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this:
>
> # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory /dev/sdb/home/some_directory
>
> Should that work?

I wouldn't recommend it.
/dev/sda/xxx are devices.

To access the data you have to mount the device.
then rsync the data.

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by: Andrei Z. - Tue, 14 Mar 2023 04:33 UTC

Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 13/03/2023 16:35, pinnerite wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:32:00 +0000
>> pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple.
>>>
>>> I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb).
>>>
>>> I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this:
>>>
>>> # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory
>>> /dev/sdb/home/some_directory
>>>
>>> Should that work?
>>>
>>> I would experiment but I cannot save back to the DVD.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>
>> I forgot to mention that I would mount both drives on the virtual o/s
>> probably on /mnt.
>>
>>
>
> rsync [options] /mnt/sda?/home/DIR /mnt/sdb?/home
>
> will transfer all of DIR from /mnt/sda?/home to /mnt/sdb?/home
> if /dev/sda? is mounted on /mnt/sda? and /dev/sdb? is mounted on
> /mnt/sdb? where ? is the relevant partition number. options at minimum
> should be -av (archive, verbose).
> you will have to create the directories sda? and sdb? on /mnt
> mkdir /mnt/sda? mkdir /mnt/sdb?
>
>
How to use Rsync Command on Linux

https://www.linuxcapable.com/linux-rsync-command/

"Use Dry Run to Test Rsync Command"

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by: pinnerite - Tue, 14 Mar 2023 11:55 UTC

On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 07:33:09 +0300
"Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Chris Elvidge wrote:
> > On 13/03/2023 16:35, pinnerite wrote:
> >> On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:32:00 +0000
> >> pinnerite <pinnerite@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I cannot get my head round something that I am sure is simple.
> >>>
> >>> I have two drives not with full systems on them (sda and sdb).
> >>>
> >>> I boot on a live DVD and then want to rsync like this:
> >>>
> >>> # rsync <options> /dev/sda/home/some_directory
> >>> /dev/sdb/home/some_directory
> >>>
> >>> Should that work?
> >>>
> >>> I would experiment but I cannot save back to the DVD.
> >>>
> >>> TIA
> >>>
> >>
> >> I forgot to mention that I would mount both drives on the virtual o/s
> >> probably on /mnt.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > rsync [options] /mnt/sda?/home/DIR /mnt/sdb?/home
> >
> > will transfer all of DIR from /mnt/sda?/home to /mnt/sdb?/home
> > if /dev/sda? is mounted on /mnt/sda? and /dev/sdb? is mounted on
> > /mnt/sdb? where ? is the relevant partition number. options at minimum
> > should be -av (archive, verbose).
> > you will have to create the directories sda? and sdb? on /mnt
> > mkdir /mnt/sda? mkdir /mnt/sdb?
> >
> >
> How to use Rsync Command on Linux
>
> https://www.linuxcapable.com/linux-rsync-command/
>
> "Use Dry Run to Test Rsync Command"
>

Thank you all. I couldn't think straight last night.

Regards, Alan

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Subject	Author
rsync question	pinnerite
Re: rsync question	pinnerite
Re: rsync question	Chris Elvidge
Re: rsync question	Andrei Z.
Re: rsync question	pinnerite
Re: rsync question	Killadebug
Re: rsync question	stepore