Re: massive copy

[Glyn Astill <glynastill@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr> wrote:

> From: Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>
> Subject: massive copy
> To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 9:14 AM
> Hello
> 
> I have to copy around 250 Gb from a server to a Netapp NFS
> server
> and I wonder what would be faster ?
> 
> first solution
> 
> cp -pr * /mnt/nfs/dir/
> 
> second solution ( 26 cp processes running in // )
> 
> 
> for i in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y
> z
> do
> cp -pr $i* /mnt/nfs/dir/ &
> done
> 

Perhpas you could try some sort of tar pipe if you've got a nice cpu?

tar cf - * | (cd /mnt/nfs/dir/ ; tar xf - )