>I looked at the man page and the options there. I don't see anything >that I think will help. Is there a way around this?
Then you didn't read properly, the man page is really exhaustive. You can try "--size-only". It is also possible to negate the options by prefixing them with no like e.g. "--no-times --no-owner --no-group etc." I also had this issue when transferring between different file systems which didn't have same concept of file properties. Anyway using "-a" as you tried doesn't make sense as it tries to preserve almost everything. >Second problem. The transfer speed is back to the old slower speed. >I'm pretty sure I am using the same old options on both ends. Still, >it's back to being slow again. But the new disk is different compared to the old one? Then it needs to be treated differently. There multiple factors which can affect performance. Had the same issue with a new SSD drive. Unfortunately I currently don't have access to the machine and I don't remember what needed changing but it could well be possible that you need different mount options, format the drive using other options, using different schedulers, etc. -- Best regards Daniel
