On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Vitaly <li...@karasik.org> wrote: > 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 >
I am not even using a lan. It is disk to disk. I have ~16M files ~900GB. rsync has been running about 18 hours and has indexed over 8 million files, but still did not copy even one. Thanks, -tom
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