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rsync is very slow between the linux and additional secure HDD
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Hi,
I'm trying to copy the data between linux machine to an extra attached secure hdd, initially I mounted the secure hdd on the system. I have around 150GB of data to transfer in which there is tar file of around 132GB of size, I tried to copy the data by cp command. It broke frequently, then I tried with the rsync command. The rsync command it not breaking but its very slow, the rsync command is running from last three days continuously but still it transfered around 30% of the overall data.
Can somebody help to speed up the process of rsync.
Thanks,
Dilip G
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Can you share the connection and disk information so we can see which is the cause? I expect that you are running a 5400 RPM HDD on USB2 or USB1.
Or u can use this command for making fast: rsync -aPhW --protocol=28, even u can use cpio command. See here for more info:
www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/rsync-command-examples/
What does "iotop" tell you?
Regards
Thanks for your reply..... but I did my job by an alternate method. I ran a tar command with split command. It created the 20GB part files of the overall directory and then I transferred it by cp command.
Thanks for your help guys.
Regards,
Dilip Gupta