many files filelist problem

[Mozzi]

Hi all

I am still busy with my copy of the /var/spool/mail direcroty

I gave it this command
[root@ais-mail01 root]# time rsync -pogrve ssh /var/spool/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/spool/mail/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
building file list ...

As top shows me it has been going 85 mins now building the filelist
I recon there are about 80 000 files in that directory totaling 50Gig

I was wondering is it beacause of the many files that it takes so long or is it beacause the files continually change that maybe it has a problem verifying the files ?
Is there a way that I can bypass this and just do a direct copy so to speak?

I used these commands previuasely without success

[root@ais-mail01 root]# time rsync -pogve ssh /var/spool/mail/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/spool/mail/
bash: /usr/bin/rsync: Argument list too long

real 0m10.777s
user 0m3.710s
sys 0m0.140s
[root@ais-mail01 root]# time rsync -pogve ssh /var/spool/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/spool/mail/
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
skipping directory /var/spool/mail
wrote 25 bytes read 20 bytes 12.86 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00

real 0m3.727s
user 0m0.280s
sys 0m0.030s

Tnx

Mozzi

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