[CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems
Tom Brown
tom at ng23.net
Mon Jun 23 18:13:54 UTC 2008
>
> I have done 700k and 800k files transfers (including hardlinks), but
> indeed it could take a while to compute the transferlist. Newer rsync
> versions bring down the amount of memory needed drastically. That is
> one of the reasons I offer a recent rsync in RPMforge. There is almost
> never a good reason to use a dated rsync.
>
i have used rsync on ~16million files with a filesystem size of about
1.5TB - worked fine but took a while
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