>>>>> "SB" == Steve Bertrand <[email protected]> writes:
SB> Perhaps there is a Perl way to do it, but otherwise, for 250GB of data, SB> research dump/restore, and test it out (after making a backup). SB> imho, you shouldn't use another layer of abstraction for managing such a SB> large volume of data, unless you are attempting to create some sort of SB> index for it. i want to back up steve here. no way perl will ever handle that much data in anything like the time a dedicated dump/rsync/etc could do. those are optimized and written in c just for that job. perl would be massively slower. it should be easy enough to just benchmark perl's File::Copy vs unix cp on a large file. multiply that by that many files and you will easily see the problem here. uri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] http://learn.perl.org/
