<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Meyer</b> <<a href="mailto:meyerri@westnet.com.au">meyerri@westnet.com.au</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 Sun, 2007-03-04 at 01:00 +0900, sothisistheinternet wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 3/3/07, Patrick Coleman <<a href="mailto:blinken@gmail.com">blinken@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On 3/3/07, sothisistheinternet <
<a href="mailto:sothisistheinternet@gmail.com">sothisistheinternet@gmail.com</a>><br>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> <snip><br>> ><br>> > Any idea why rsync -avz --delete /pub/share1 /mnt/usbdrive1
<br>> is so incredibly<br>> > slow? It takes longer to run than just reformatting the<br>> 320GB USB drive and<br>> > copying the data from the /pub/share1 directory (260GB) back
<br>> to it!<br>><br>> The -z option compresses the data with gzip as it copies,<br>> which is<br>> designed to help over network links. If rsync isn't<br>> intelligent enough
<br>> to notice it's doing a local copy and so compression will be a<br>> bad<br>> idea, then turning compression on will slow the copy down a<br>> huge<br>> amount.
<br>><br>> -Patrick<br>><br>> Hi Patrick,<br>><br>> I have no idea whatsoever why I was using z. I blame it on the<br>> newborn. Either that or my alternate personality is smoking crack.<br>>
<br>> Ari<br><br>Possibly because that's what I said I used? :-)<br></blockquote></div><br>I'm pretty sure you said -avc, not -avz... Now I need to look up what -c does again :-)<br><br>Ari<br>