PS Before anybody says "use rsync", I was, but ... there are rather a lot of files. I had to give it 12 GB of swap space to build its list and it was taking well over 24 hours to run. I can't give it 24 hours :(
How much files would that be? The 355049 files I have make the rsync process take up 27 MB RSS (`ps u`). Considering that ftp4 for example has 3962138 files makes it roughly 301 MB. If it took 12 GB of swap (plus the regular RAM) would mean that you have nearly 160 MILLION files. (On 64bit it may be less) It if takes too long, remove the -c option. Or split it up by walking down some dirs, IOW cd /source; for i in *; do rsync ... $i /target/$i done; Jan Engelhardt -- -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com