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RE: cp to flash drive very slow
- From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ at telia dot com>
- To: "ML Cygwin" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 22:13:43 +0200
- Subject: RE: cp to flash drive very slow
you (cygwin-owner@cygwin.com) wrote on :
> Well, yes. The flash drive is a Sandisk Cruzer Mini which is USB 2.0
> with fallback to 1.1. The computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 which
> claims eight USB 2.0 connectiors. Running Windows XP.
Right, then we know. ;-)
> I don't think caching is the difference. I was able to unzip the .zip
> file right after xcopy had copied it.
...which doesn't proove a thing about caching or not.
> Is there anything faster than cp for copying out of the cygwin tools?
> I'm working out some scripts to share files between my work machine
> and my home machine using the flash drive. I could use xcopy but
> then I'd have to go through the filename translation doohicky.
>
> dar
*** Untested **** suggestion:
---
#!/bin/bash
src="/home/dar/personal-projects /projects/"
dst="/cygdrive/z" # for the USB drive
for d in $src; do
find $d -type d | (
while read dir; do
# cannot be used on SHARES
mkdir -p "$dst/$dir"
# assuming xcopy is in PATH
xcopy "$(cygpath -D "$dir")" "$(cygpath -D "$dst/$dir")"
done
)
done
---
Does it need to be more complex?
Otherwise the cygwin 'rsync' or 'unison' packages might be useful...
Others might be able to help with them.
/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomputer systems --72-->
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