[plug] formatting new external usb hardrive

[bwarff]

rsync is slower than a copy for the first time, but becomes massively faster
on udpates.. so use rsync if your copying the same folder to the same folder all the time,
use cp or scp if its a 'fresh' backup on each occasion.


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:28:41 +0800
Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au> wrote:

> William Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > I found rsync did not work well in the context of full system backups.
> > It ran out of memory very quickly with many thousands of files and also
> > took a long time.
> 
> I'm curious how many thousands of files you had... I regularly run
> rsync on 80,000 file sets (and have done close to 200,000 in the past)
> and have not encountered any problems.  The rsync process does take up
> a fair amount of memory but even a modest machine by today's standards
> should be able to cope.
> 
> Cameron
> 
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