On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 12:48:23 -0700 jdow <j...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On 20180907 11:49, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:26:32 -0400 Tim Evans <tkev...@tkevans.com> wrote: > > > >> On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > >> > >>> I was doing this and it is definitely faster than rsync: > >>> > >>> cd /drive1 > >>> tar cf - uncopieddir1 uncopieddir2 ... | ( cd /drive2 ; tar xf - ) > >>> > >>> But, after about 16 hours, I am only 229G in (out of 3.7T). This is much > >>> slower than the other thread with USB drives which did 400GB in 8 hours. > >> > >> Try this: > >> > >> # cd /drive1 > >> > >> # find . -print -depth | cpio -pdm /drive2 > > > > Thanks! > > > > So, should I cancel the other job and do this? I am not sure what to do, > > sorry. > > > > Ranjan > > Unless the drive is sparsely filled plain old "dd" may be the quickest end to > end operation. And you get an exact duplicate so the OS and filesystem on the > disks won't give you any trouble if you have a mix of filesystems. > > dd if=/dev/<drive1> of=/dev/<drive2> bs=1073741824 conv=sparse,noerror & > pid=$! > Remember that "kill -USR1 $pid" will then tell you how much you've copied if > you > get "is done yet" anxiety. > > You suffer no time for directory accesses, file reads and writes, and all > that > nonsense. If you do this fairly often keep it handy as a script or at least > an > example. The only time this won't work as nicely is if the source and > destination disks are not on the same machine. The slowness of the tar > solution > won't be a problem because the network will as likely as not be your limiting > factor.
Thanks very much! The first drive is 96% full and they are on the same machine. So, I kill the first one and get this started then? Does it matter that the first drive may be a failing drive? Btw, "kill -USR1 $pid" does not actually kill the job, right? Many thanks, Ranjan _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
