[vox-tech] Copying/ Moving Large number of files

[Foo Lim]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:48 PM, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) <
ALLO at novozymes.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to move a large number of directories whose size ranges from 1GB to
> 6 GB (multiple files ~400mb each) between two NFS partitions.  Which is the
> safest way to do it?  Will "mv dir1 /bla/bla/bla/dir1" will suffice?  The
> data is extremely valuable and I will hate to lose it during the process,
> should I do "copy" {cp -r dir1 /bla/bla/bla/dir1} instead and then remove
> the originals?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance for your help.
>
>
> Best Regards
> Alfredo Lopez
>

Hi Alfredo,

I would do

md5sum <src files> > md5.txt
cp -pr <src> <dest>
md5sum -c md5.txt
rm <src>

Or do the same md5 steps but write to DVD & use sneakernet to be even safer
(with an added benefit of having a backup also).

HTH,
Foo
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