I’m running rsync to sync a directory onto my external USB HDD. It’s about 150 gigs of data. 50000+ files I would guess.
It’s running it’s first sync at the moment, but its copying files at a rate of only 1-5 MB/s. That seems incredibly slow for a USB 2.0 enclosure. There are no other transfers happening on the drive either.
Here are the options I used:
rsync -avz --progress /mysourcefolder /mytargetfolderI’m running Ubuntu Server 9.10.
For the first sync just use
cp -a /mysourcefolder /mytargetfolder
rsync only adds overhead when the destination is empty.
also.. the -z option is probably killing your performance, you shouldn’t be using it if you are not transfering data over a slow link.