Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > > > 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 ? You may find that cp is significantly slower than cpio/tar. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) milton at calnek.com 306-717-8737 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.