Cygwin's RSYNC for large data transfer
- by Tim Brigham
I'm using rsync from Cygwin to do a large scale data transfer from an aging HP MSA 1000 to a new DAS attached to a different server. I have a daemon running on the remote server in read only mode and a local copy writing the files to disk.
One of my servers is an image repository with over a million files spread across about 300 directories. Each…