[ale] rsyncing *large* drives

[James P. Kinney III]

Break up the process into to different directories. Then launch a
parallel process for each directory rsync. It will work very well on a
RAID5 system with multiple NICS.

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 13:09, John Wells wrote:
> We have a need to mirror an entire 80 GB harddrive on a nightly basis. 
> rsync would seem ideal for this sort of thing, but I've never used it for
> syncs over a gigabyte and am concerned that the large size of the drive
> might give it's comparison routines a headache, particularly if that 80GB
> consists for the most part of small files.
> 
> Anyone used rsync in this type of situation?  If not, do you have any
> suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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