Hi, I am planning to migrate from Centos 6 to 7. Part of my plan is to, temporarily, store my samba shares on a raspberry Pi running wheezy. My main desktop is Fedora 22.

I now have shares on both Centos and the Pi and I mount both of these on the F22 box. Initially I used rsync/ssh on F22 from the Centos share directly to the Pi (ie. bypassing samba at the Pi end). abc is the existing share which I have been using for a while, nabc is the new share on the Pi.

all good. But that isn't what I wanted. I wanted to copy from one share to the other:

This sort of works BUT all the files on the Pi are created with a “\” in front of the name. Not what I was after. Any ideas why this is happening?

Cheers

I have no answer to your question, but why don't you just rsync the files from the Centos box to the Pi? No Samba needed for this.

Alternatively, on the F22:

cd /mnt/abc
find . | cpio -pdumva /mnt/nabc

(you may want to check whether other cpio options are needed)

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thanks. That does indeed copy the files across correctly. In spite of the -p option I lose the timestamps (which I would like) but this may be related to the ownership coming from groups set up on 2 different computers.

Ultimately I think the rsync suggestion will suffice.

regards