Thanks Stephen, > For me, a 5GB rsync is pretty quick --- just a few minutes, typically > --- so there may be other reasons why it is taking so long. rsync is very fast if you have a small number of files (several hundred thousand), if you have 10 million files rsync uses all the RAM in your system, and since it stats the files it goes very slowly. I have written to the rsync mailing list asking about this. cheers Stuart
