Copying a large file from an USB 3 disk (NTFS or EXT4) to another one (UFS/FreeBSD) is a very slow process....
Mario Marietto
marietto2008 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 20:32:26 UTC 2021
ok. I know how to resume a transfer with rsync,but I don't know how to do
that using cp. Which parameter should I use? 10x. On the next file I will
use cp and I'm curious to compare both the speeds.
Il giorno dom 28 nov 2021 alle ore 21:25 Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> ha
scritto:
> rsync will delete the file it is making if you abort it. Even if you
> had told it to not do that cp and rsync would both just start over anyway.
>
> On 11/28/21 15:22, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > Hello. What happens now if I stop the transfer ? I imagine that I can't
> > resume it. Do you think that it is a good idea to stop now (I've copied
> > 70 mb over 200) and to restart the transfer using cp -au ?
> >
> > Il giorno dom 28 nov 2021 alle ore 21:14 Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net
> > <mailto:kmk at sanitarium.net>> ha scritto:
> >
> > cp -au is pretty much the same as rsync -au. I doubt you need any of
> > that other stuff you were using. Especially the one that is a
> default.
> >
> > On 11/28/21 15:11, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > > Hello. thanks. Can you tell me the most appropriate parameters to
> > use
> > > with cp ? U will save me a lot of time. Thanks very much.
> > >
> > > Il giorno dom 28 nov 2021 alle ore 20:43 Kevin Korb via rsync
> > > <rsync at lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync at lists.samba.org>
> > <mailto:rsync at lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync at lists.samba.org>>> ha
> > scritto:
> > >
> > > rsync is terribly slow at local copies. Also, it doesn't do
> > its normal
> > > optimizing (see --whole-file). Just use cp.
> > >
> > > On 11/28/21 13:38, Mario Marietto via rsync wrote:
> > > > Hello to everyone.
> > > >
> > > > I'm copying a large file from a NTFS formatted disk to
> another
> > > > one,UFS/FreeBSD disk,both are removable disks attached to
> > the USB 3
> > > > port. The file is 200 GB large and it is copied very
> > slowly. Why
> > > it is
> > > > so slow ? I don't know where to store my virtual machines.
> I
> > > tried to
> > > > save them on the ext4 disk because I wanted to share them
> > easily
> > > between
> > > > Linux and FreeBSD but I've realized that when I mount the
> > disk in
> > > > FreeBSD after some time it corrupts. I tried to store it
> > on the NTFS
> > > > disk but it happens the same. So,now I'm on FreeBSD and I'm
> > > copying them
> > > > to a dedicated UFS/FreeBSD style disk,but as I said,the
> > speed is
> > > very
> > > > slow. How can I increase the speed ?. Actually I'm using
> this
> > > > command,because I want to resume the uploading if it
> breaks at
> > > some point :
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > root at marietto:/mnt/da3p2/bhyve/Ubuntu # rsync -avAXEWSlHh
> > > > /mnt/da0p1/Backups/OS/bhyve/Ubuntu/im* . --no-compress
> > > --info=progress2
> > > >
> > > > sending incremental file list
> > > > impish-cuda-11-4-nvidia-470.img
> > > >
> > > > 2.13M 0% 9.49kB/s 6284:55:38
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > and : where do you save large files ? what's the procedure
> > that
> > > you use
> > > > to copy large files with a decent speed ? Unfortunately
> under
> > > Linux is
> > > > not safe to use a RW ufs disk access. So,I'm out of
> solutions.
> > > >
> > > > -
> > > > Mario.
> > > >
> > >
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