2010/4/12 Tom Rosenfeld <tro...@bezeqint.net> > > Hi, > > I am a great fan of rsync for copying filesystems. However I now have a > filesystem which is several hundred gigabytes and apparently has a lot of > small files. I have been running rsync all night and it still did not start > copying as it is still building the file list. > Is there any way to get it to start copying as it goes. Or do any of you have > a better tool? >
Are both servers in the same LAN? IMHO, your problem in network band witchbetween source and destination. I have ~4M files, ~800GB - rsync is very fast in the same LAN (1Gb), and slowly for remote destination. Regards, Vitaly _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
