2009/1/8 Kathryn Smith <[email protected]>: > I'm dating myself here. You could definitely do it to yourself on BSD, SunOS, > and single digit Solaris versions. I haven't tried it on any Linux variants. > Maybe they're more idiot-proof. :-)
I believe it's current GNU tar that's more idiot-proof. It defaults to relativizing any absolute paths you give it. rsync does pretty well for this kind of application. If you're "only" in the tens of GB and hundreds of thousands of files, it should be pretty zippy; though since it likes to build a big file list before it does any actual transfering, several smaller rsyncs will be faster than one big rsync. At my workplace, we do use rsync for many-TB filesystems, and it tends to be the best thing we have, but it's still not terrific and at that scale takes a lot of tweaking. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
