On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, Keith Keller wrote: > I suspect that sshfs's relatively poor performance is having an impact > on your transfer. I have a 30TB filesystem which I rsync over an > OpenVPN link, and building the file list doesn't take that long (maybe > an hour?). (The links themselves are reasonably fast; if yours are not > that would have a negative impact too.) Don't forget that the time taken to build the file list is a function of the number of files present, and not their size. If you have many millions of small files, it will indeed take a very long time. Over sshfs with a slowish link, it could be days. Steve