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    best way to move data?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Bashar, Aug 2, 2011.

  1. Bashar

    Bashar Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,
    I just got my W520 and looking forward to move data fro my W500, whats the best way other than flash stick or sharing it via WIFI ?

    I was thinking of cross cable and connect them and start copying data, but how would i do that? both of them are ubuntu linux

    Thanks
     
    Bashar, Aug 2, 2011
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  2. john46

    john46 Notebook Guru

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    you just connect them with a normal ethernet cable. Both their network cards have auto-negotion so they will automatically detect if the cable is cross or not and adjust themselves.

    After connecting the cable, just issue ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.1 on the first laptop, ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.2 on the second laptop, disable firewalls, and you are set to go.Test with ping.

    Make sure you have a good quality ethernet cable so that you have gigabit transfer speeds ;)

    If you want to check the transfer speeds before you move things do this:

    sudo apt-get install iperf (on both laptops)
    then on the first one (10.0.0.1) do 'iperf -s' and leave it running
    go to the second laptop and do 'iperf -c 10.0.0.1'.
    After a while you should see the transfer speeds on the link.
     
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  3. Dharmaraja

    Dharmaraja Notebook Consultant

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    Clone the HD much easier..
     
    Dharmaraja, Aug 2, 2011
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  4. john46

    john46 Notebook Guru

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    Basically it depends what you want to achieve. Do you want to move your complete environment from the old pc to the new one?
    When I usually change pc/laptops I prefer to reinstall my OS and start new, only transfer the files I need.

    A week ago I got my new T420s and what I did was to install a new OS.
    Here is what I did with the old one:
    I imaged my old harddrive from the old pc to a file on the new pc (transfering it using a network cable as I describe above - ultra fast).
    Then I converted that file to a virtualbox drive.
    And now I can boot my old pc inside the new one using virtualisation, and get any file I may want etc. :)
     
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  5. Bashar

    Bashar Notebook Evangelist

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    john46: thanks a zillion trillion billion :D you got exactly what i needed!

    now to avoid using SCP and slow things down, rsync is installed on both ends what service i need to enable to be able to rsync ? i know i can do rsync -e ssh but rather do faster to avoid encryption delays :)

    thanks
     
    Bashar, Aug 2, 2011
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  6. Bashar

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    found this for whom looking to rsync via rsync daemon not via ssh :)
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync

    thanks ya'll
     
    Bashar, Aug 2, 2011
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