On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2014, King Beowulf wrote: >> rsync -av --progress /media/Home2 /media/Movies/Backup_8.17.14 > > Adding the z option to rsync (that is, specify -avz) compresses the data > during transmission and increases transfer speed even more.
Depends ... $ mkdir zfoo zbar $ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1M count=100 of=zfoo/sample.data 100+0 records in 100+0 records out 104857600 bytes (105 MB) copied, 6.70184 s, 15.6 MB/s $ time -p rsync -va zfoo/ zbar/ sending incremental file list ./ sample.data sent 104,883,330 bytes received 38 bytes 69,922,245.33 bytes/sec total size is 104,857,600 speedup is 1.00 real 0.68 user 0.47 sys 0.14 $ rm zbar/sample.data $ time -p rsync -vaz zfoo/ zbar/ sending incremental file list ./ sample.data sent 104,917,444 bytes received 38 bytes 23,314,996.00 bytes/sec total size is 104,857,600 speedup is 1.00 real 3.90 user 3.53 sys 0.34 Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
