Using Rsync to Sync 2 - 1TB Drives

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Currently I have 1 External WD 1TB drive hooked up to my Ubuntu server. I recently purchased a internal WD 1TB drive. I found and excellent example and information on formating and preping a new drive for auto mount on boot.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive

After going thought the walkthrough on partitioning the drive and formatting with ext3 i needed to get all the data from my external drive to my new internal drive. I decided to use rsync. Its installed natively on Ubuntu. So here is and example of the command I used to kick off the rsync with progress showing:

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rsync -ar --progress --size-only /media/ShawnsMassiveStore/* /media/Khaos1TB/

The entire sync of about 750GB took about 9 hours.