Recommended way for initial backup before rsync calls

2007-09-03 Thread Sven . Hartrumpf
Hi rsync'ers. What can you recommend to create the initial backup of a partition before calling rsync (under Linux, 100 GB, 10M files, only normal files and some soft links)? (Using rsync takes too long for this initial copy.) Here are some candidates: 1. star -copy -no-fsync -p -xdot -C $1 . $

Re: Recommended way for initial backup before rsync calls

2007-09-03 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-09-03 16:34 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What can you recommend to create the initial backup of a > partition before calling rsync > (under Linux, 100 GB, 10M files, only normal files and > some soft links)? > > (Using rsync takes too long for this initial copy.) > > Here are some c

Re: Recommended way for initial backup before rsync calls

2007-09-03 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 9/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What can you recommend to create the initial backup of a > partition before calling rsync > (under Linux, 100 GB, 10M files, only normal files and > some soft links)? If you're copying an entire partition, another option to consider is copy

Re: Recommended way for initial backup before rsync calls

2007-09-04 Thread Sven . Hartrumpf
Mon, 3 Sep 2007 20:00:06 -0400, hashproduct+rsync wrote: > On 9/3/07, Sven.Hartrumpf wrote: > > What can you recommend to create the initial backup of a > > partition before calling rsync > > (under Linux, 100 GB, 10M files, only normal files and > > some soft links)? > > If you're copying an enti