<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Patrick Coleman</b> <<a href="mailto:blinken@gmail.com">blinken@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 3/3/07, sothisistheinternet <<a href="mailto:sothisistheinternet@gmail.com">sothisistheinternet@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br><snip><br>><br>> Any idea why rsync -avz --delete /pub/share1 /mnt/usbdrive1 is so incredibly
<br>> slow? It takes longer to run than just reformatting the 320GB USB drive and<br>> copying the data from the /pub/share1 directory (260GB) back to it!<br><br>The -z option compresses the data with gzip as it copies, which is
<br>designed to help over network links. If rsync isn't intelligent enough<br>to notice it's doing a local copy and so compression will be a bad<br>idea, then turning compression on will slow the copy down a huge<br>
amount.<br><br>-Patrick<br></blockquote></div><br>Hi Patrick,<br><br>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.<br><br>Ari<br>