Fusepod Saves the Day!
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elfsI managed to restore a significant portion of my music collection at the office, and had a geek moment while I did so. I mounted my iPod's managerial API as a filesystem under Gentoo Linux and sucked it dry.
The iPod is a 5GL 30GB machine. It's old but so far still reliable. I've dropped it three or four times during it's life span. (I got it in March of 2006.)
FUSE is the Filesystem in Userspace toolkit, a simple library that hooks into the Linux mount system and allows you to mount anything as a filesystem so long as it speaks the FUSE API.
If you've ever owned an iPod, you know that the iPod database presents a number of different paths to the music. /Genre/Artist/All/Album/Song is one path, and /Albums/Songs is another. If those look like filesystem paths, good, because Fusepod thinks so too. I was able to mount my iPod database as a filesystem and then just use rsync or tar to copy everything out of my iPod and onto my desktop.
The sequence after plugging in the iPod is:
If you're a Gentoo user, FUSE is part of the normal package of available installs under portage, but Fusepod is not. For that, you'll have to use the Sunrise overlay, and mark it permitted, because it's currently masked testing for x86 (as is everything in Sunrise).
The iPod is a 5GL 30GB machine. It's old but so far still reliable. I've dropped it three or four times during it's life span. (I got it in March of 2006.)
FUSE is the Filesystem in Userspace toolkit, a simple library that hooks into the Linux mount system and allows you to mount anything as a filesystem so long as it speaks the FUSE API.
If you've ever owned an iPod, you know that the iPod database presents a number of different paths to the music. /Genre/Artist/All/Album/Song is one path, and /Albums/Songs is another. If those look like filesystem paths, good, because Fusepod thinks so too. I was able to mount my iPod database as a filesystem and then just use rsync or tar to copy everything out of my iPod and onto my desktop.
The sequence after plugging in the iPod is:
# sudo mount -o ro /mnt/ipodSince this was just pulling stuff off the ipod, I mounted it read-only. I didn't want there to be a chance of fusepod mucking with the database, since I also use GtkPod as my preferred tool of syncing the thing and I've sometimes had problems in the past with fusepod and gtkpod disagreeing on the hash keys used to compile the iPod's music database.
# sudo fusepod -o allow_other,ro /mnt/ipod-fuse
# cd /mnt/ipod-fuse/Albums
# tar cvf - . | ssh desktop 'cd Music; tar xf - '
# sudo fusermount -u /mnt/ipod-fuse
# sudo umount /mnt/ipod
# sudo eject /mnt/ipod
If you're a Gentoo user, FUSE is part of the normal package of available installs under portage, but Fusepod is not. For that, you'll have to use the Sunrise overlay, and mark it permitted, because it's currently masked testing for x86 (as is everything in Sunrise).
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Date: 2009-01-16 06:48 pm (UTC)What??? *snort* As if!
Sudo make me a sandwich.
Okay.
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Date: 2009-01-17 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-17 07:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-17 08:54 am (UTC)rsync -av -I /path/to/ipod/ /shared/drive/ipod/.
( -I as in Ignore timestamps, just copy the whole kit and kaboodle....)
Should be quite a bit faster than spawning two tar's...
(I *knew* there hadda be some way to tell rsync to do that; it's too good a tool not to have such a thing!)