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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to zip/tar millions of files? Post 302478694 by citaylor on Wednesday 8th of December 2010 04:14:27 PM
Old 12-08-2010
Different filesystems on the same server will be orders of magnitude quicker.
Probably one of the fastest is the one mentioned previously:
Code:
tar cf - /my/path | ( cd /new/target; tar xfp -)

And this has the added benefit of making the files contiguous on the new filesystem.
This also doesnt compress or encrypt the files, both of which will hit the cpu.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSX

zipsplit

zipnote(1)						      General Commands Manual							zipnote(1)

NAME

       zipsplit - split a zipfile into smaller zipfiles

SYNOPSIS

       zipsplit [-t] [-i] [-p] [-s] [-n size] [-r room] [-b path] [-h] [-v] [-L] zipfile

ARGUMENTS

       zipfile	Zipfile to split.

OPTIONS

       -t     Report how many files it will take, but don't make them.

       -i     Make index (zipsplit.idx) and count its size against first zip file.

       -n size
	      Make zip files no larger than "size" (default = 36000).

       -r room
	      Leave room for "room" bytes on the first disk (default = 0).

       -b path
	      Use path for the output zip files.

       -p     Pause between output zip files.

       -s     Do a sequential split even if it takes more zip files.

       -h     Show a short help.

       -v     Show version information.

       -L     Show software license.

DESCRIPTION

       zipsplit reads a zipfile and splits it into smaller zipfiles.

EXAMPLES

       To be filled in.

BUGS

       Does not yet support large (> 2 GB) or split archives.

SEE ALSO

       zip(1), unzip(1)

AUTHOR

       Info-ZIP

								v3.0 of 8 May 2008							zipnote(1)
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