[GRASS-user] GRASS Database doesn't copy correctly

[Rainer M Krug]

On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Daniel Lee <lee at isi-solutions.org> wrote:

> I tried compressing it and moving the compressed file to the server, that
> worked.


Great.


> I'd never heard of rsync before - that sounds like an elegant solution,
> I'll try that one.


Absolutely - especially, if you copy the data regularly. But even for a
single copy of a larger amount of data, rsync is quite useful.

Otherwise I at least have the tarball version on the server now.


True - that's always useful.


> Thanks!


Pleasure,

Cheers,

Rainer

>
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:12 PM, <Lee at isi-solutions.org> wrote:
>>
>>> > OS desktop and server? permission issues? Are hidden files copied? is
>>> the server hdd full? File system on desktop and server? If the desktop
>>> allows files >4GB, does the server as well? How did you copy?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > What about archiving on desktop, and extracting archive on server?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Questions over questions.
>>> >
>>> Good question questions ;)
>>>
>>> OS desktop is OpenSUSE 11.4, permission issues might have been the
>>> problem but I made sure by trying to copy them this time as root (this
>>> computer recognizes the folder as belonging to root, for whatever reason, so
>>> theoretically I would have had issues, although I never do with the other
>>> computers). Hidden files should be copied - I did a drag and drop operation
>>> with the file manager and that should copy hidden files contained in the
>>> copied folders (at least that's the way it works when I test it out on my
>>> desktop, but since the command behind the copying is probably cp it should
>>> work the same when I copy it to a server). Server HDD still has lots of
>>> room, more than a TB. File system is on the desktop is Ext4, I can't find
>>> any documentation on the NAS server but it's a Black Armor from Seagate and
>>> I assume it's NTFS internally. I use CIFS to talk to it. It's definitely got
>>> files on it that are > 4 GB.
>>>
>>> Archiving on the desktop and moving the archive to the server is a good
>>> idea, I'll try it out and report back :)
>>
>>
>> Or you could try rsync - usually the best for these kind of things.
>>
>>
>>
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>> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
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-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :       +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:       +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax (F):       +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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email:      Rainer at krugs.de

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