copy many files to another location

[sharif854]

hi
i have img folder that has more than 20000 image files and has more than 3 gigabyte
i need to move them
but standard copy has timeout
i think cronjob maybe help
but i don't know how call cron job to copy theme and in next time resume copy files that not copy
if you have better way please tell me
thanks

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

How you do try to move them? In Directadmin? You should do that in SSH.

 

[nobaloney]

Adding my two cents to point out that from the shell there's a big difference between copying and moving. While the post subject is Copy the post itself says move.

Moving between two directories on the same drive/partition is close to instantaneous, even for thousands of files. So if you really need them only at the new location, do something like this:

mv /path/to/files/* /newpath/to/files/.

If both path and newpath are on the same partition the move will be almost instantaneous, but if they're not the system will first do a copy, and then remove them from the old location.

Jeff