On 20180907 11:49, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 14:26:32 -0400 Tim Evans <tkevans@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 09/07/2018 02:22 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
I was doing this and it is definitely faster than rsync:
cd /drive1
tar cf - uncopieddir1 uncopieddir2 ... | ( cd /drive2 ; tar xf - )
But, after about 16 hours, I am only 229G in (out of 3.7T). This is much slower than the other thread with USB drives which did 400GB in 8 hours.
Try this:
# cd /drive1
# find . -print -depth | cpio -pdm /drive2
Thanks!
So, should I cancel the other job and do this? I am not sure what to do, sorry.
Ranjan
Unless the drive is sparsely filled plain old "dd" may be the quickest end to
end operation. And you get an exact duplicate so the OS and filesystem on the
disks won't give you any trouble if you have a mix of filesystems.
dd if=/dev/<drive1> of=/dev/<drive2> bs=1073741824 conv=sparse,noerror & pid=$!
Remember that "kill -USR1 $pid" will then tell you how much you've copied if you
get "is done yet" anxiety.
You suffer no time for directory accesses, file reads and writes, and all that
nonsense. If you do this fairly often keep it handy as a script or at least an
example. The only time this won't work as nicely is if the source and
destination disks are not on the same machine. The slowness of the tar solution
won't be a problem because the network will as likely as not be your limiting
factor.
{^_^}
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