Copying from NTFS mount onto NTFS via Debian

[Iam8up]

I've got a partition:
/mnt/sdb2 and /mnt/sdb3

that are both in NTFS and both need to be duplicated onto /mnt/sda - this is also in NTFS. Neither of these drives can be put into a different filesystem until the data is put onto sda, which is where the problem is.

I've tried:
cp -a /mnt/sdb2 /mnt/sda
cp: cannot create diredtory '/mnt/sda/sdb2': Operation not permitted

and:
rsync /mnt/sdb2 /mnt/sda
skipping directory /mnt/sdb2

and:
rsync -a /mnt/sdb2 /mnt/sda
NTFS: Unicode name contains a character that cannot be converted to chosen chara
cter set. Remount with utf8 encoding and this should work.
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/mnt/sda/sdb2" failed: Operation not permited (1)
rsync: stat "/mnt/sda/sdb2" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/sda/sdb2/*" failed: No such file or directory (2)
That last line continues over and over with * being many different files, within subdirectories that we're obviously not created.


As that second line on the last command said, encoding it in utf8 may work. Can anyone help me with this? I don't understand how 'encoding' works.

[lakerdonald]

su -
rsync -ravz /mnt/sdb2/ /mnt/sda

[Iam8up]

Awesome!

I greatly appreciate the response at all, and at such incredible speed =)

It worked very well. Some of the files copied, but that's more then likly due to NTFS corruption or the drive going bad.

Thank you, very much!