2014-10-19 18:55 GMT+03:00 Tim Dunphy <bluethundr at gmail.com>: > Guys, > > I've setup an rsync between two directories that I've mounted locally on a > jump box. Long story short, the two directories are both NFS shares from > two different hosts. Our security dept won't allow us to SSH between the > two data centers, directly. But the jump host can contact both. So what > I've done is mount the NFS shares from one host in each data center on the > jump box using sshfs. > > The directory I'm trying to rsync from has 111GB of data in it. I don't > think I've ever setup an rsync for quite so much data before. > > But I started the rsync at approx. 7pm last night. And as of now the rsync > is still building it's file list. > > [root at sshproxygw ~]# rsync -avzp /mnt/db_space/timd/www1/ > /mnt/db_space/timd/www2/svn2/ > building file list ... > > So my question to you is, is this a normal amount of time to wait for the > file list to be built? Considering the amount of data involved. I have it > running in a screen session I can attach to to find out what's going on. > Regerating rsync file list can take a very long time :/ Make sure that you are using fast link on both ends and at least version 3 of rsync. -- Eero