[Solved] What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
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[Solved] What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
I've got a little over 1 TB of data I need to copy from an external hard disk to an internal hard disk. I tried just dragging and dropping, but it's been at 12% for a while now and I feel like it's stuck.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
Be patient. It may not be stuck but just transferring a full buffer. That's a lot of data, so it may take a while. Go have a beer or two and come back.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
A 1TB drive can take 3 hours to copy, sometimes more depending on the method used. Be patient.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
You can always copy and paste in smaller increments but what ever you do it takes time...Mint will tell you when it's done.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
I would definitely use "cp" or "rsync" in a terminal to copy that much data. There are issues - as in this forum** - with at least some file-browsers and copying large amounts of data especially to/from USB drives.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
You guys were right, I was a bit too impatient haha. I first tried to copy everything from the terminal by doing cp -r * /targetdirectory/, because I'm trying to learn terminal stuff. But my issue with that was that I couldn't see the progress. So then I did it the old fashioned way instead.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
Double Commander is a fine stand-alone file manager that has never bogged down on me. You might give it a try.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
For future reference, one way you can do that is to add the "v" tag (verbose), so
cp -rv /source/ /target/
, which will scroll the file names as copied. For more info on cp or any terminal command, look at the man page (short for manual), e.g., man cp
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
dd command with bs=102400000 will copy 100 mb in one read operation.
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
Thanks, I'll try that out next time
Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
Just used Double Commander the other day to copy from an old install to a USB drive. It may not be pretty, but it sure works good!
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
my favourite is the Gnome Commander & which is also in the repositories.
- - they all have their own quirks, and some work better than others do.
when copying a lots of files, I'll generally do that directory by directory,
& in case of any file failure - - I've had a few, when doing bulk file transferring .. .. ..
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Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
After I read your post I installed "gnome commander", sorry to tell that it bugs, showing me the same folders on the two parts of the window.jimallyn wrote: ⤴Sun Mar 31, 2019 1:44 amJust used Double Commander the other day to copy from an old install to a USB drive. It may not be pretty, but it sure works good!
my favorite is the Gnome Commander & which is also in the repositories.
- - they all have their own quirks, and some work better than others do.
when copying a lots of files, I'll generally do that directory by directory,
& in case of any file failure - - I've had a few, when doing bulk file transferring .. .. ..
Re: What's the best way to copy a large amount of data?
You followed old advice, meant for a different version of Mint. No guarantee that it still works. Time to close the topic.gottogetout wrote: ⤴Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:04 pm After I read your post I installed "gnome commander", sorry to tell that it bugs, showing me the same folders on the two parts of the window.
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