Copy for internal HDD to external?

[marty]

I want to be able to copy recorded stuff from the internal SATA HDD in my DUO to an external USB HDD.
I'm pretty sure this should be possible but I havn't a clue how to do it :confused:

[judge]

telnet into box & use
cp /mnt/hdd/FILE NAME /mnt/USB/FILE NAME or where ever you want it...

[marty]

OK just treid but failed :D
I must be typing summut wrong.
Here's a screenshot.

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[judge]

1.ts doesn't seem to be there. It's probably in /mnt/hdd/movie/

use:
cd /mnt/hdd
then:
ls

to see what's in that directory.
also mv would be better if you want to move rather than make a copy.

[pooface]

Firstly, I would recommend not to use dcc and use summit like putty or another telnet client. Then, I would recommend putting the "&" symbol after sending the commands, as this runs the command in the background (so doesn't matter if you telnet session cancels itself...)

[marty]

I figured out the 'movie' directory bit but just get 'permission denied'



1.ts doesn't seem to be there. It's probably in /mnt/hdd/movie/

use:
cd /mnt/hdd
then:
ls

to see what's in that directory.
also mv would be better if you want to move rather than make a copy.

[judge]

never got the permission denied, are you logged in as root?
as pooface says, I wouldn't use dcc. do a google search for putty.

[marty]

OK I have found the problem, my external HDD is formatted in NTFS and is detected as a RO drive so thats why I can't write to it.
Any ideas how to change it to a RW drive without changing the format from NTFS (PC won't easily read EXT3 and FAT32 doesn't support big files)