<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Vitaly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@karasik.org">linux@karasik.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
2010/4/12 Tom Rosenfeld <<a href="mailto:trosen@bezeqint.net">trosen@bezeqint.net</a>><br>
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> Hi,<br>
><br>
> 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.<br>
> Is there any way to get it to start copying as it goes. Or do any of you have a better tool?<br>
><br>
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</div>Are both servers in the same LAN? IMHO, your problem in network band<br>
witchbetween source and destination.<br>
I have ~4M files, ~800GB - rsync is very fast in the same LAN (1Gb),<br>
and slowly for remote destination.<br>
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Regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Vitaly<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>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.<br><br>Thanks,<br>
-tom<br><br></div>