Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: >> hi all, >> >> I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk. >> >> When I run this seems like my machine (4 GIG ram centos 5.1) >> now begins to swap out more programs. Is there a way to reduce >> that swapping? I am running with echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness >> >> I simply mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mkdir /mnt/backup/month.day.year >> then rsync -a /home /mnt/backup/mon.day.year > > IMHO, rsync is overkill here. I would: > > mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mkdir /mnt/backup/month.day.year > cd /home;find . | cpio -vdump /mnt/backup/mon.day.year how about cp -a ?