<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Andrew Furey</b> <<a href="mailto:andrew.furey@gmail.com">andrew.furey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 03/03/07, Richard Meyer <<a href="mailto:meyerri@westnet.com.au">meyerri@westnet.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> > Any idea why rsync -avz --delete /pub/share1 /mnt/usbdrive1 is so<br>> > incredibly slow? It takes longer to run than just reformatting the
<br>> > 320GB USB drive and copying the data from the /pub/share1 directory<br>> > (260GB) back to it!<br>><br>> Well, it does an md5 (or equivalent) check on every file on source and<br>> destination (as far as I know)
<br><br>Only if you specify -c; the default is to just work on the date/time<br>and size to see if they're the same. Of course, if your clock was out<br>or something and the times are all different, then all bets are off :)
<br><br>Andrew</blockquote><div><br><br>It compiled its list and made its deletions quickly. Copying changed files and added files took wayyy too long :-(<br><br>Ari <br></div><br></div><br>