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Tom Rosenfeld wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tom
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br>
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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>
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Thanks,<br>
-tom<br>
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Thanks for all the suggestions!<br>
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I realized that in my case I did not really need rsync since it is a
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Please note that rsync from local to local is just a glorified cp. It
does not do file comparisons at all.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">It was also pointed out that ver 3 of rsync now does
start to copy before it indexes all the files. Unfortunately, it is not
available on CentOS 5.<br>
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wget <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz">http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/src/rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz</a><br>
tar xvzf rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz<br>
cd rsync-3.0.7.tar.gz<br>
./configure<br>
make<br>
su<br>
make install<br>
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Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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