I am trying to use the cp command to copy some files around but want to preserve the entire folder structure. Example:
Then within the /backup location I want to see /backup/folder1/folder2/file.
I have tried cp -a and cp -p but neither give me the above.
How to Copy the entire folder contents (including sub-folders and their contents) to another folder using PUTTY? Is there any command for that?
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What I want to do is copy over certain directory trees of the NAS to the USB attached drive. I usually use MS synctoy to sync folders from my windows pc to the NAS drive, and MS richcopy to make the initial transfer from PC to NAS. For this operation though, since it is taking place entirely on the NAS and its connected drive, I thought that rsync would be the best option, and it is available on my NAS drive.
Last night I entered in rsync -avr /movies/* /usb1-1share1/ to copy the entire "movies" dir to the drive, which shows up as usb1-1share1 on the NAS drive. It copied most of the directory tree ok, but a lot of the folders were empty, so this morning I tried rsync -Carv --ignore-existing /movies/* /usb1-1share1/ to try and get all the files missed, without recopying the 24GB that did make it across. This also managed to copy a few more GB over, but not everything.
I am running the command from an ssh session on the NAS using putty on my PC, in as user "admin" which should have all rights over these folders. There is a bunch of errors in the command window like this: rsync: failed to set times on "/shares/usb1-1share1/movies/classics/fulldvd/First Blood DVD/.VTS_01_2.VOB.RxdjWZ": Operation not permitted (1)
I want to restart another session and get the files it missed, but I want to find out what I am doing wrong first. Should I be doing this as root user? am I missing some switches or just plain doing it all wrong?
I cannot change directory to a more than three folder tree destination folder from ~ in terminal. I've checked everything. No Typos or misspell. The destination folder was recognized by "ls" command but when I went to it, the terminal said, "no such file or directory."
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basically so i dont have to reinstall everything and set it up again.if this is possible could you please explain how i can do it in the simpliest terms at all please.
I would like to copy the entire file system hierarchy from one drive to another..i.e contents of each directory as well as regular files in Linux platform. Would be gratefull to know the best way to do that with possibly Linuxes in-built functions. The file system is a ext family.
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Code:for i in `ls $X`; do mkdir $PATH/$i; doneUnfortunately $i is deliminated by whitespaces in the filenames and not the actual folders.
$X contains only other folders so I dont have to worry about regular files but any kind of more "advanced" solution would work.
i need to copy files from a folder called output files to another folder called running but im not able to do it i always get a stat error
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I hibernated my windows7 & then started ubuntu 9.10. Then I copied a folder containing some PDF files from my ubuntu to that 60GB (D on windows. Then I rebooted the machine & choose windows from GRUB. the windows came up from hibernation but nowhere I was able to see that folder which I copied.
Since ubuntu supports (understands) NTFS file system it means when I copied that folder it should have updated the Directory Tree of NTFS on that 60GB (D but that folder is not shown.
When I restart the windows the folder appears (ofcourse because windows checks the file system again for consistency while in hibernation it does not).
when I installed 13.37 I created a local copy of the entire stable tree (source/ and all the rest) just to have all that stuff around to browse offline.
Now, to instruct myself, I'm trying to use rsync to keep this stuff up to date. But I seem either to have misread the rsync man page or ... well, I don't know. I am issuing the following command and getting the results seen below:
Code:
When I open Nautilus v2.16.2 in CentOS 5.4 then I miss at the left side a tree view of the whole directory tree.
Only a list of all files in the current directory is visible.
How can I enable/show ?
I am using evolution for my email client, and it shows me hidden files and folders in the folder tree. Basically, my email folder is in a unix folder on a system, and that system logs me into my folder when I try using evolution. The downside is that files like .bashrc, .bash_profile and other weird stuff end up in the foldertree view
See how the tree would show bashrc and .lynxrc?The folder "documents" shouldn't be showing either.Yeah, that's really annoying. It showing the contents of the $HOME folder that I login to.In thunderbird those things wouldn't show.It must be evolution specific.Anyone have an idea how to fix this issue?
I would like to copy an entire unmounted partition from one machine to another on my LAN. This is basically to perform a very direct backup of the partition.
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i want to copy one folder to server using terminal. iwant to copy datatable folder to server. it like this:
copy from
user: /home/qa/html/datatable
to
server: www/html
how to do that...i'm new about this..i try like this:
1> qa@qadesktop2:~$ ftp 10230.35.211
2> fill password
3> ftp>cd www/html
4> ftp>mput
(local-files)/home/qa/html/dataTable-1.6/*
I downloaded the bin file, and installed it but I haven't realized that I made the folder in the current directory. I would like to install in /usr/java.
Can I now just copy paste it there. Or I need to re-install to desired location I installed JRE , is that ok or I need to install sdk
I'm trying to copy a list of files except the files which has ".log" in the filename to another folder.I can run it correctly when I am located in the Source folder, but not when I am in any other location.cd /home/me/Sourcels /home/me/Source -1|grep -v "^.*log$" |xargs -n 1 -iHERE cp -r HERE /home/me/DestinationHow can I indicate both Source and Destination Folder?
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i want make a bash panel and i want he will copy files from orginal folder to $user folder i mean when for explame i type i want install some server he say cp: cannot stat 'root/Desktop/2/files/beckup/sa-mp-steam': No such file or directory.
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I have cygwin installed and i can copy that folder in there so basically it will linux shell script
The reason I ask is, we have a home server running Fedora 12. I would like to be able to let anyone just plug in a flashdrive, and have Fedora automatically grab and copy all the files on that flashdrive to a specific share.
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