[plug] what command does the same thing as robocopy /mir?

[Richard Meyer]

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 01:00 +0900, sothisistheinternet wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/3/07, Patrick Coleman <blinken at gmail.com> wrote:
>         On 3/3/07, sothisistheinternet <sothisistheinternet at gmail.com>
>         wrote:
>         >
>         <snip>
>         >
>         > Any idea why rsync -avz --delete /pub/share1 /mnt/usbdrive1
>         is so incredibly 
>         > slow? It takes longer to run than just reformatting the
>         320GB USB drive and
>         > copying the data from the /pub/share1 directory (260GB) back
>         to it!
>         
>         The -z option compresses the data with gzip as it copies,
>         which is 
>         designed to help over network links. If rsync isn't
>         intelligent enough
>         to notice it's doing a local copy and so compression will be a
>         bad
>         idea, then turning compression on will slow the copy down a
>         huge
>         amount.
>         
>         -Patrick
> 
> Hi Patrick,
> 
> I have no idea whatsoever why I was using z. I blame it on the
> newborn. Either that or my alternate personality is smoking crack.
> 
> Ari

Possibly because that's what I said I used? :-)

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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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