a recursive copy of my home - with pv or rsync

hello

want to do a recursive copy of my home drive to a external drive - in order to make a backup

and i want to use pv - to have an overview on the progress.

why does this fail


    pv -p -e -r -b r martin/* > /run/media/martin/HDDRIVE2GO/medion/medion2017/ 

this command fails -

questions :

  • do i use too much parameter within the above mentioned pv-command?
  • besides this: how would i write this command with rsync
  • would i have an overview - in rsync too:

there is such an option: showing-total-progress-in-rsync-is-it-possible


#> ./rsync -a --info=progress2 /usr .
    305,002,533  80%   65.69MB/s    0:00:01  xfr#1653, ir-chk=1593/3594)

Love to hear from you

Not sure of everything the pv command does but I use the equivalent of this:

rsync -av --delete /home/ /run/media/martin/HDDRIVE2GO/medion/medion2017/

Add z if you want it compressed.

hello dear John

many thanks for the answer.

Looks great - i will try it out tomorrow
(note: i do not have the external drive here - with me - will test it tomorrow)

again - many thanks

have a great day. :slight_smile:

What format is the target drive?? if a MS format ownership and permission are not preserved. You need to back to a Linux formatted partition or use TAR which preserves the permission bits. If you back to a Linux file system you can use cp or rsync. rsync is great because it only copies changed files so after the first backup the following go much faster. I backup to a ext2 formatted USB using luckybackup which is a nice GUI front end to rsync.

hello dear gogalthorp

many many thanks. The target-drive is ms-format.

i think that i will reformate this - and do a Linuxformat… - ext2 or so…

You can use pv only on a single file. F.e.


pv /dev/sdX | dd of=/dev/sdY#/sdX.iso

If you want the verbose output of rsync + the progress per file, use the -P (capital p) option.

This page has a lot of nice examples, also for using pv
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/show-progress-during-file-transfer/

hello dear knurpth

many thanks

will try it out tonight.

btw:
openSUSE Tumbleweed+Leap / is this different to
openSUSE Tumbleweed+ OpenSuse 13.2