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Re: copying a million small files between disks?



sam reckoner wrote in news:6a42eec70710311440u52556985wda68ce326f4a0417
@mail.gmail.com:

> I'm not exaggerating. I have over one million small files that like to
> move between disks. The problem is that even getting a directory
> listing takes forever.
> 
Zip up the whole file structure, then just transfer the Zip file.
I do this for backups to CDR


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