--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Frank Bonnet <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: massive copy > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Debian User List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 10:02 AM > Glyn Astill wrote: > > --- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> From: Frank Bonnet <[email protected]> > >> Subject: massive copy > >> To: "Debian User List" > <[email protected]> > >> Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 9:14 AM > >> Hello > >> > >> I have to copy around 250 Gb from a server to a > Netapp NFS > >> server > >> and I wonder what would be faster ? > >> > >> first solution > >> > >> cp -pr * /mnt/nfs/dir/ > >> > >> second solution ( 26 cp processes running in // ) > >> > >> > >> for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u > v w x y > >> z > >> do > >> cp -pr $i* /mnt/nfs/dir/ & > >> done > >> > > > > Perhpas you could try some sort of tar pipe if > you've got a nice cpu? > > > > tar cf - * | (cd /mnt/nfs/dir/ ; tar xf - ) > > > > Yes the machine has nice CPUs and a lot of RAM > do you think it will be faster using tar rather than cp ? >
I'd like to think it would help, if the files are quite compressable perhaps you could add a 'z' in there too... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
