Thanks Jeff for all your help. This method does appear to be pretty slow. It's probably much better if the files just need updated and not created.
For now I will probably just plug both drives in to my PC and use Xcopy. Or use Samba to Xcopy from the RPI to a drive plugged in to my PC. I'm much more familiar with it. I will keep experimenting with Rsync. Both devices, BTW, are eth0. Although I can't imagine this matters when using Rsync internally on the RPI. You're probably right, the RPI just isn't up to the task. Thanks again for all your patience and knowledge. Howard Jeff07971 wrote: > Hi Howard > > Glad you got it working. > > The speed issue I'm not really sure about I would have thought that > local copy would be quicker but as the pi is kinda poor at I/O its not a > surprise. > > The greyed out files with the random extensions are partial files made > by rsync. As long as the last rsync ran fully then just delete them. > > The rsync drop out (or rather ssh drop out to your PC) is unusual I've > used this method many time before and never suffered that problem, some > of my (over a wired network to a USB HDD on the pi) transfers took 5 > days and did not drop out once. Wifi by any chance ?? > > You can tune rsync to do exactly (and only) what you want to do, just > read the manual --dry-run is your friend ! > > Jeff Can I go home now? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107352 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
