Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 12:41:22 -0500 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs Message-ID: <1376934082.25499.11612497.1C73C726@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20130816064612.GH1190@petole.demisel.net> References: <7E7AEB5A-7102-424E-8B1E-A33E0A2C8B2C@gmail.com> <20130816064612.GH1190@petole.demisel.net>
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On Fri, Aug 16, 2013, at 1:46, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote: > > Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS? > > I would use find+cpio. This handles hard links, permissions, and in case > of later runs, will not copy files if they already exist on the > destination. > > # cd /source/dir > # find . | cpio -pvdm /destination/dir > I always found sysutils/cpdup to be faster than rsync.
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