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A look at rsync performance

A look at rsync performance

Posted Aug 26, 2010 14:44 UTC (Thu) by ariveira (guest, #57833)
In reply to: A look at rsync performance by Liefting
Parent article: A look at rsync performance

> For bulk copies like this, I tend to use tar over a shell pipe:
> tar -cvf - * | (cd /someotherdir; tar -xvf -)

recently pax ( the posix archiver ) was brought to my attention

pax -rw . /someotherdir

Not to mention its awesome -s option.


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