On 8/23/2016 4:05 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 03:18:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
I'm copying Debian distribution DVDs.
I used
cp -R /media/cdrom0 /media/richard/myrepository/dvd_1
It gave me what I wanted [*N.B.* I did not want dvd_1.iso]
It was SLOW.
The man page for rsync suggested that it could do it faster.
Can it?
If so, what is correct syntax to get the same result as the command above?
TIA
Loop mount the DVD
mount -t iso /media/cdrom0 -o loop /mnt
cd /mnt
and you should see all the files within the DVD.
cd /media/richard/repository/dvd_1/
rsync -pavz /mnt/ .
Should do it. If you stop and restart rsync, it should start from the place it
left off,more or less.
Hope this helps,
AndyC
Thanks. I'll try it as soon as copy of DVD#2 ends.
What's special about a loop mount in this circumstance? As I read
the rsync man page it was pretty similar to cp and it had
accepted a plain automount [I'm on Jessie with Mate DE]]
