> Have you tried using rsync with: > > --size-only ignore mod time for quick check (use size) > > O. > > On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:37 -0700, Andrew Morgan wrote: >> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, James Treleaven wrote: >> >> > The best idea I have seen is two rsync's: the first while the server >> is >> > running and the second (much faster one) with it momentarily stopped. >> >> Unfortunately, even rsync can take a very long time. I'm preparing to >> migrate to a new Cyrus server and I plan to use rsync. I've been doing >> daily rsyncs of the mail spool in preparation for the final rsync while >> the old server is stopped. We have about 375GB of mail in 6 million+ >> files, and the rsync process takes about 6 hours. It's not the size of >> the data (although the initial rsync did take considerably longer). >> Just >> calculating the differences for that many files is a lot of work. :)
And uses a lot of memory. rsync slows down when the job gets bigger. Try to divide it into smaller segments. >> >> Andy >> --- >> Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus >> Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu >> List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > -- > Ondrej Sury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html > --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
