Nice addition of solution.
In time Lemmy will replace reddit for tech questions. Give it a few years!
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Nice addition of solution.
In time Lemmy will replace reddit for tech questions. Give it a few years!
Thanks man.
replace reddit for tech questions.
The thing is as of right now most Lemmy users are just tech enthusiasts. We want all sort of people to create a more robust community. I want to Lemmy to fully replace reddit in terms of amount of users, communities, posts and activeness.
Let's just give Lemmy some time.
Can't remember if this had mv in scope, still good to keep on radar
My snapshot is rsync on ext4.
Thanks anyways.
Surely just copying the files over should do the job? For a single snapshot, that is, otherwise you'll probably be duplicating a lot of deduplicated space by copying every file out of every backup.
I believe using rsync and telling it to maintain hard links should work.
Surely just copying the files over should do the job?
It gives me an error 'cannot copy special files'. Even when doing as root.
The article confuses me a bit. But I'll look into it.
Thank you.
It seems to me like the copy utility you're using (file manager?) doesn't maintain soft links/hard links. You may need a command line tool to do the copying that does support it, like rsync, or a different GUI tool (though I admit I don't know for sure what GUI tools specifically support this).
Thanks man. It worked.
Yeah I was using Nemo.
rsync
Can you give me some guidance on how to copy using snaps rsync in CLI, please?
Edit: I just read the article you linked. I'll try that and let you know
Have you looked at Clonezilla?
I already have several files on the drive which I want to copy the snapshots.
Won't clonezilla replace everything?
it will, yes. Which is good if you want to keep everything from from the source drive but bad if you want to keep everything from the destination drive.