One thing you might want to do is to keep from modifying the atime on the source files. Perhaps mounting the source volume as read-only could do it, but that might not be feasible. AFAIK, the Linux EXT filesystem is very slow in deleting files, so perhaps copying them all first and then deleting the originals later might work. Maybe someone mentioned that already.
I have copied some filesystems considerably larger than 100GB, but maybe not with 1.3 million files, and it's not taken days. Perhaps several hours. And this not with fast machines, either. Maybe, for the future, some of the applications that create a bunch of small files can be made to create them under a tree that is a filesystem inside a file on another filesystem. Then, you just unmount the inner filesystem and copy it from the master filesystem to a filesystem on a new device or machine, and then remount it. So you're not actually making new inodes and directories when you copy. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
