“Best method for audio library HDD migration = rsync” #OSX #opinions / SML.20130130.IP3

My audio samples are stored in a FireWire external drive for use with the MacBookPro. I am migrating everything over to the MacBookAir and Apple told me that there is no way to use FW drives natively. WTF?!

 

So now I am copying everything over to the new drive. Now there are many ways you can do that. You can use OSX’s native copy and paste. But OSX copy and paste is slow and would go do file counting. It also had issues if you terminate file transfers in the middle of it.

 

But rsync does all these—and better at it. It is already built in inside OSX. Shell tools are better and more efficient. You can buy apps which do these kinds of things but why buy crappy apps when you have the best tool for it?

 

Syntax:

$ rsync -av [source] [target]

 

or what I did in my shell:

$ rsync -av /Volumes/Ra/Audio/ /Volumes/LaCie/Audio/

 

where:

-a is a flag to tell rsync to turn on archive mode, where “accessed date” and “modified date” will not be modified as a result of copying.

-v is the flag for verbose mode, which shows the files being copied as the process continues.

 

For the rest of what rsync can do, look no further than its built-in manual, of course:

$ man rsync

 

I know, it's a no brainer. But I continue to be surprised at what most people didn't know is readily available in OSX

 

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