Re: massive copy

2009-04-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-04-14 04:17, Justin wrote: Am I misunderstanding that command? How would that help? The limit here would be hard disk throughput, I imagine, and you're still reading/writing the same amount of data to the drive, nay? Just use your first, simplest, command (cp -pr * /mnw.t/nfs/dir/) and le

Re: massive copy

2009-04-14 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:14:43AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: > 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

Re: massive copy

2009-04-14 Thread Justin
at to begin with you'd be at least half done by now. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Glyn Astill wrote: > > --- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > From: Frank Bonnet > > Subject: Re: massive copy > > To: glynast...@yahoo.co.uk > > Cc: "Debian User

Re: massive copy

2009-04-14 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet wrote: > From: Frank Bonnet > Subject: Re: massive copy > To: glynast...@yahoo.co.uk > Cc: "Debian User List" > Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 10:02 AM > Glyn Astill wrote: > > --- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet >

Re: massive copy

2009-04-14 Thread Frank Bonnet
Glyn Astill wrote: --- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet wrote: From: Frank Bonnet Subject: massive copy To: "Debian User List" 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

Re: massive copy

2009-04-14 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Frank Bonnet wrote: > From: Frank Bonnet > Subject: massive copy > To: "Debian User List" > 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 >