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On Freitag 14 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 08/14/2009 05:47 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > I am looking for a faster way to do a |
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> > |
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> > cp -a r<thisdir> <thatdir> |
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> > locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. |
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> > Is there a neat trick to accomplish this faster than |
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> > good old cp? |
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> Nope. Some people like to use pipes in hope to speed it up, something |
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> like: |
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> tar -c <thisdir> | tar -xC <thatdir> |
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> but this isn't really faster and fscks up sparse files. |
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> But if <thatdir> already contains some files from <thisdir>, then rsync |
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> would be faster than cp. If not, stick with cp. |
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use cp with -u and files already existing are skipped. |
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