On 18/4/22 12:24, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
On 2022-04-18 00:16, Adriel Peng wrote:
Hello
I plan to move a dir which has about 0.4 million files to a new
location. This new location is a network storage.
I will run the command:
nohup mv dir /mnt/disk/newdir
I guess this will take a lot of hours to finish.
My question is, if the process gets an unexpected interruption, what
will happen and how can I recover it?
Thanks.
If you can afford not to do a move but a copy and then a delete, then I
would recommend using rsync
rsync will transfer what is missing if interrupted
If there is nothing missing it will finish pretty quickly.
I sync 130GB in 1.4 million files over the internet regularly and if
there are no changes it take about 20 seconds to finish (the disks are
fast on both ends).
If there are changes it transfers about as fast as the network can go.
Bijan
I have found that
rsync -avHb --remove-source-files dir /mnt/disk/newdir
moves files in one process. If it is interupted, re-running will simply
pick up where it was halted.
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All the best
Keith Bainbridge
keithrbaugro...@gmail.com
