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Due to some mishaps, I am unable to boot into Kubuntu at all. However, my data is still on the hard drive.

I managed to get one of the other two computers to which I have access to read the disk by booting into a liveCD session of kubuntu. The only storage medium to which I have access is a 30 GB data stick.

Here's where the trouble starts: In music alone, I have to back up about 60 GB. Obviously this is going to have to be split into chunks and moved over to the second spare PC until I can reinstall Kubuntu on my laptop. All of the data that needs backed up is behind a permissions wall, so while I can view it, I can't interact with it directly.

I know copying and moving through the terminal can get around this with sudo cp or sudo mv, but is there a way to first compress multiple folders in a single archive, then move it? (While we're on the subject, what compression method would be best for large volumes of music in MP3, WAV, and OGG format?)

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MP3 and OGG are already well compressed, so I would just use the STORE level (no compression at all). WAV - go for maximum.

And, in making archives, all you need to do to archive is to read it the original meda file, no other permissiones needed IIRC, but

To change all the directories to 777 (-rwxrwxrwx):

find /home/yourname/music -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

To change all the files to 666 (-rw-rw-rw-):

find /home/yourname/music -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
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