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Date:      Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:00:01 -0700
From:      aurfalien <aurfalien@gmail.com>
To:        Nicolas KOWALSKI <nicolas.kowalski@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs
Message-ID:  <852D7000-F9D2-4C63-8D68-A56F77EB9B8C@gmail.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 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.

- aurf



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