Restoring files from an old hard drive to new drive - Programming One Liner 11

Using rsync to restoring directories between two drives

rsync -vrplogDtH /olda/dir /home/dir

This programming one liner allows you to restore / copy files from one hard drive to another. This can be useful in cases when you have a hacked hard drive as slave attached to your web server and now you want to restore files.

Programming "One Liner" lookup terms:

rsync rcp

Brief explanation of options used with rsync for restoring files between hard drives.

-v, --verbose increase verbosity
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks
-o, --owner preserve owner (root only)
-g, --group preserve group
-D, --devices preserve devices (root only)
-t, --times preserve times
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links

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