Copying a large file system (again)

[Kuba Ober]

On Monday 03 December 2007, Tino Schwarze wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> it's me again with my 600 GB BackupPC files (9 million files, 15
> million directories, loads of hardlinks).
>
> I tried copying everything with star via netcat to another machine (with
> a new shiny xfs filesystem). It's been running for about 48 hours now
> and about 450 GB have been copied. So far so well, but star is using
> over 900 meg memory now, the machine only has a gig and it just started
> swapping, so the job could take ages.

I guess you can try contacting Joerg Schilling, there may be an option (or a 
test version somewhere) where this problem is fixed. I admit that I've not
dealt much with star and over 150GB.

You may want to run star multiple times, each time transferring a part of the 
tree.

Cheers, Kuba