Have you tried combining find and rysnc? On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Stuart Inglis wrote: > 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 -- ===================================================================== Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ mhaque@haque.net "Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Don't drink and derive." --Unknown =====================================================================