On 01/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">James</b> <<a href="mailto:Diagmato@black0ps.com">Diagmato@black0ps.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I was hoping someone would be able to shed some light onto this problem<br>- a simple backup of two directories (rather large directories) usually<br>takes at most 5 hours. But this week, it took 3 days.<br><br>Every few weeks, i turn on the external drive, and run:
<br><br>cp -fvr /home/james/.* /media/backups/home<br>cp -fvr /mnt/win_c2/.* /media/backups/docs<br><br>On fedora core, and way back on mandriva 10.2, this only took a few<br>hours - possibly 5 at most. On suse, its taken 3 days, and is still going.
<br><br>The drive is USB2.0 - a possibility is that its only running at usb1's<br>speed? If so how can i check this?<br><br>Anything else it could be? There isnt really that much more files to be<br>backed up since fedora core 4, so its not as if theres thousands of
<br>large files (since the last backup).<br><br>It just seems really strange that it took such a long time. Im currently<br>using suse 10 (eval).<br><br>Thanks in advance<br><br>James<br>_______________________________________________
<br>SWLUG Discussion List - <a href="mailto:Discuss@swlug.org">Discuss@swlug.org</a><br><a href="http://swlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://swlug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br>One problem I've seen, which might be your problem now...
<br><br>Using ".*" in a directory sometimes includes "." and ".." in the list of files to process. And doing it recursively, it includes the whole directory tree starting from "/".<br>
<br>Just something to be aware of. I'd just reference the directories in the command lines and remove the wildcards - should give you the same results.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Neil.<br>