copying music to usb drive over network

spikey1973

oke this is bit of a linux, networking newby question rather than a rune audio question but i believe you can still help me with it.

i woud like to copy music that is have on my laptop directly to the ssd drive connected to the raspberry pi (sdb i believe, will check on fore hand ofcourse), how can i do this? preferrably via terminal

kind greatz matthieu

otec

Download a scp client: WinScp or Far manager.

Add ssh connection to pi there and browse pi filesystem as if was windows or Mac. I assume your sdb device is mounted on pi.

spikey1973

eh yeah it is mounted on pi,

but i work on linux both pi and laptop (ubuntu) i know how to log in the pi on the terminal but then the terminal is 'the pi' how do i get to on mine laptop and pi at the samen time that i can do a copy to... execution

otec

Then simply use scp.

On your laptop:

scp -pr <music_file> root@runeaudio:<path to sdb mounting point>/

spikey1973

super man, so logical.. but i never would've figured!! thanks a lot!

Felisek

You can also use rsync if you add something new to your laptop and don't want to copy all of it. This is what I use on my Mac:

rsync -rlv --delete --size-only /Users/myname/Music/Rips "/Volumes/music_store/USB/USB DISK/"

I use --size-only, because normal rsync doesn't work very well over this particular Samba mount - it used to sync lots of unchanged files.

Before you do any of these, you need to change Samba permissions, by default the USB mount is read only. To change it, you need to modify /etc/udevil/udevil.conf. Find default_options_vfat and default_options_exfat and change ro to rw.