[Gllug] Flat rsync

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 14 Jul, Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Andrew Farnsworth
> <farnsaw at stonedoor.com> wrote:
> > I know I am going to get flamed for this, but it is a problem at work
> > and I am looking for help.
> >
> > Under windows, I have a 25 Gb directory that contains millions of small
> > files to the point where it actually uses 96 Gb of disk space (due to
> > block / cluster size issues).  I need to transfer this to another server
> > and windows copy takes ages (it was running for 3 days before some
> > mo.... err support tech killed the session)  Now I am looking for faster
> > alternatives.  I have tried taring up the directory but the sheer size
> > of it is killing tar.  Would rsync work under windows? and would it
> > maintain windows permissions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for not trashing me too much on this.  It is work and
> > we are required to use windows.  On the other hand, all our web / app /
> > database server are running linux.
> >
> > Andy
> 
> 
> Is the copy to another Windows machine?
> 
> If it is, your posting would frankly be out of topic, I don't mean
> this as a preposterous flaming, I personally  have no experience with
> Windows having not worked with it at all for the past 10 years. Gut
> feeling tells me that you could find better expertise elsewhere (real
> Windows gurus come up with very clever things born out of familiarity
> with it).
> 
> Something that may work better in general is to move the disk to the
> target machine and do a shadow copy with duplication software (dd or
> dump in Linux :-) ), that way you would at least skip the network part
> of the whole thing.
> 
> 
> 
> <snip>

   Is the machine still in use as a server? Can you just boot the old
machine using a Knoppix disc and do the copy using Knoppix? There may be
something relevant in the http://www.knoppix.net/wiki

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