Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:38:59 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nicolas KOWALSKI <nicolas.kowalski@gmail.com> Subject: Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1310102038260.55372@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <852D7000-F9D2-4C63-8D68-A56F77EB9B8C@gmail.com> References: <7E7AEB5A-7102-424E-8B1E-A33E0A2C8B2C@gmail.com> <20130816064612.GH1190@petole.demisel.net> <852D7000-F9D2-4C63-8D68-A56F77EB9B8C@gmail.com>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, aurfalien wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:46 PM, 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 > > > Old thread I know but cpio has proven twice as fast as rsync. > > Trusty ol cpio. > > Gonna try cpdup next. Try sysutils/clone, too.
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