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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 2013 08:46:12 +0200
From:      Nicolas KOWALSKI <nicolas.kowalski@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs
Message-ID:  <20130816064612.GH1190@petole.demisel.net>
In-Reply-To: <7E7AEB5A-7102-424E-8B1E-A33E0A2C8B2C@gmail.com>
References:  <7E7AEB5A-7102-424E-8B1E-A33E0A2C8B2C@gmail.com>

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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

-- 
Nicolas



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