In the recent past I asked about fixing a RAID array on a NAS drive and was kindly given some advice by Mark Rogers. Plainly a sensible option and which was included in the advice, was to have a backup. So yesterday I went out and bought a USB3 1 TB external drive along with a new USB 3 card. I've bunged the card in and got all sorts of errors, something about 'ring error' which from my brief searches relates to the kernel being too old. I'll attend to that later as I can still use the new drive on a USB 2 port. Granted it will take longer but I can live with that.
My question is how should I safely copy everything off my NAS box on to the new drive? Should I just use cp or rsync? The emphasis here is 'safely' as I want to make sure I copy everything off the NAS and back again in case that goes 'nipple north'.
If it helps, here's what I want to copy from - //storage_server/Laptop_Share on /media/Laptop_Share type cifs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) //storage_server/FTP_RAID_C on /media/linux_Share type cifs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) //storage_server/Epox_Share on /media/Epox_Share type cifs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) //storage_server/Media_Share on /media/Media_Share type cifs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
In the past I would simply have cp'd everything off but having watched the recent discussions on rsync, it has prompted me to ask this question here.
Any help appreciated.