[SLE] Copying files

From: Albert (albert_at_fastworx.com)
Date: 08/31/05

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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:10:03 +0200

    Good day,

     

    I am using SuSE 9.2 and SuSE 9.3. The partition in question is ReiserFS.

     

    We have an image set on disk that we wish to backup. Each image is about 20
    Kb and I think there are more than a million files in the directory.

     

    I cannot get a directory listing – the shell falls over when running ls (I’m
    logged out after about 20 minutes of hard disk activity and nothing coming
    to the screen).

     

    I cannot remove the files – the same as running ls.

     

    I tried to put it all in a tarball – after 5 days I stopped it. The tarball
    was 2 GB at that time.

     

    I need to use Midnight Commander to copy the files – everything else falls
    over. After copying for 2 days, I had a power failure and stopped the
    process as the UPS was running out of power. At that point the machine was
    so slow it took 30 seconds to serve a page through Apache that normally took
    less than 1 second.

     

    Can anyone suggest a way of copying this image set to another hard disk or
    DVD that will not take forever to do? If possible with a progress bar –
    indicating how much files there are and how much files still need to be
    copied.

     

    I could easily regenerate the images (it took 8 days to do it) if there were
    a better way to save these files on disk to make it easier to manage.

     

    Any thoughts on this one?

     

    Albert 

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