On Freitag 14 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/14/2009 05:47 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a faster way to do a > > > > cp -a r<thisdir> <thatdir> > > > > locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. > > > > Is there a neat trick to accomplish this faster than > > good old cp? > > Nope. Some people like to use pipes in hope to speed it up, something > like: > > tar -c <thisdir> | tar -xC <thatdir> > > but this isn't really faster and fscks up sparse files. > > But if <thatdir> already contains some files from <thisdir>, then rsync > would be faster than cp. If not, stick with cp.
use cp with -u and files already existing are skipped.
