Jeni TehanTrying to copy 137 projects off my old laptop to a USB drive has proven to be a massive PITA. Tried rsync and cp, both taking hours per project. Just wrote an ansible playbook and role to loop over each directory, zip it, move it, unzip it, and delete the source files. All great except unzipping on the USB takes ages. Sigh. Settling for zip and move and leave it. I just wanted a browsable backup! I guess I can move all the files back onto the laptop and unzip there after the new OS is installed.
Oh FFS! Now one of them failed with a "ZIP does not support timestamps before 1980" error. 🤦♀️
Right. Trying again with tar instead of zip. I only used zip because attempts at creating tar.gz files resulted in ansible errors and mac BSD gz or whatever.
Might have some whiskey later.