Jim Gibson wrote: > At 10:50 PM -0400 9/28/09, Steve Bertrand wrote: >> xufengnju wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I have a storage server that holds one million of images with well >>> structured directory structure such as >>> >>> /data/user1/2008/09/12/image1.jpg >>> /data/user1/2008/09/12/image2.jpg >>> ... >>> /data/user2/2009/01/01/image1.jpg >>> ... >>> >>> I want to copy them to the /data2 directory in the same server on >>> another disk partion. >>> I want to keep the directory structure and `chown` && `chmod` the >>> directories and files,much like doing a `cp -rf /data /data2 && chown >>> -R sysuser:sysuser /data2 && chmod -R 755 /data2`. >>> >>> File::Find maybe an option. >>> Is there somebody who have some suggestions? >>> >>> If I do a `cp -rf /data /data2 && chown -R sysuser:sysuser /data2 && >>> chmod -R 755 /data2`,how much time maybe taken to finish the job?(The >>> images are about one million in count and 250GB in size totally). >> >> Perhaps I am missing something completely obvious. If not: >> >> Why-oh-why do you want to use Perl do perform such a task? >> >> Use dump/restore (which I can't recall a cli sequence for off the top of >> my head), or rsync: > > > tar can also be used to copy a hierarchy of directories and files. You > pipe the output of one tar into the input of another. From 'man tar': > > To move file hierarchies, invoke tar as > tar -cf - -C srcdir . | tar -xpf - -C destdir
This conversation brings me back quite a ways, when I was writing 'howtos' as such: http://ipv6canada.com/docs/clone_freebsd.php http://ipv6canada.com/docs/remote_tarball.php http://ipv6canada.com/docs/partition_table.php ...ugly, poor grammar, email addresses that don't work, but datestamps that bring me back and remind me that my 'php' files have followed my web server upgrades... :) Steve
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