On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tom Rosenfeld <tro...@bezeqint.net> wrote:
> 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? > > Thanks, > -tom > > > Thanks for all the suggestions! I realized that in my case I did not really need rsync since it is a local disk to disk copy. I could have used a tar and pipe, but I like cpio: find $FROMDIR -depth -print |cpio -pdma $TODIR By default cpio also will not overwrite files if the source is not newer. It was also pointed out that ver 3 of rsync now does start to copy before it indexes all the files. Unfortunately, it is not available on CentOS 5. -tom
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