Local copying with minimal disk activity.

2003-03-03 Thread Tom Limoncelli
How do I minimize the amount of disk activity? I'm copying a large number of files: rsync -av -W /from/here/. /to/here/. I'm using rsync because I need the incremental updates and other features. Otherwise, I'd use tar piped to tar or some similar technique. Note: Both the source and

Re: Local copying with minimal disk activity.

2003-03-03 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:56:15AM -0500, Tom Limoncelli wrote: How do I minimize the amount of disk activity? I'm copying a large number of files: rsync -av -W /from/here/. /to/here/. I'm using rsync because I need the incremental updates and other features. Otherwise, I'd use