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What's a fast way to copy a lot of files from an internal hard-drive to external (USB) storage?

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I have a large amount of data - about 500 GB - on the internal hard drive of a desktop PC. This includes music, videos, PDFs... you name it. I want to copy everything to an external USB hard drive (1.5 tb capacity). The desktop PC runs Ubuntu. To begin with, I simply plugged in and mounted the hard…

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Whatever is your interface to the harddisk you should use rsync to copy the data, it can resume transfers and files individually (--partial) , it gives you progress and checksums are verified on destination media. In short: If you are transferring t…

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