Sincere thanks to everyone for their replies. Before following some of
the advice offered I decided to investigate the machine filesystem
further.
I'm no linux expert (obviously :)) but found that of the ext3
filesystems on each disk, the dir_index feature was only enabled on
the primary disk. Re
Back in June I posted about the trouble I've been having backing up
some local directories and I'm no further ahead than back then.
Link for that discussion:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-June/017882.html
In summary: I'm copying nearly a million small files from the main
disk in a se
Thanks for the reply. The filesystems are on different disks on the
same machine.
I should have mentioned in my original post that the transfer works
for a while then hangs. I've read on the rsync page to run an strace
and here are the results, just before the hang occurrs:
select(5, NULL, [4],
