copying milllions of small files and millions of dirs

[aurfalien]

On Aug 19, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Mark Felder wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013, at 1:46, Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:13:25AM -0700, aurfalien wrote:
>>> Is there a faster way to copy files over NFS?
>> 
>> I would use find+cpio. This handles hard links, permissions, and in case 
>> of later runs, will not copy files if they already exist on the 
>> destination.
>> 
>> # cd /source/dir
>> # find . | cpio -pvdm /destination/dir
>> 
> 
> I always found sysutils/cpdup to be faster than rsync.

Ah, bookmarking this one.

Many thanks.

- aurf