--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet <f.bon...@esiee.fr> wrote: > From: Frank Bonnet <f.bon...@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 - ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
