Problem in copying data to 2nd Hard Disk

I want to copy data from main hard disk to 2nd hard disk in CentOS. But whenever i run copy command the whole data actually moved rather than copying. Its about 230GB of data in public_html/folder1 .. can anyone help me in copying folder from SDA1 to SDB1?

Thanks

 

you can use cp command:

cp -r path/to/copy/ destination/folder

Or you can use rsync command to copy the data to another drive:

rsync path/to/copy/ destination/folder

Kailash

 

My favorite way to copy an entire directory structure in UNIX/Linux is:

cd [source]
find . | cpio -dumpv [destination]

This will recursively copy the directory structure of the current directory, while keeping ownership and permissions in tact.

 

You can also save ownerships and permissions with rsync..

rsync -vrplogDtH /path/to/copy/ /path/to/copy/to

 

what is Cent OS ?

 

Another Linux distribution:

http://www.centos.org/

 

Thanks all for the help let me try these ways out ..