[nylug-talk] The best way to mirror 6M+ files?

[Yusuke Shinyama]

Hello,

I am trying to mirror two disks that have the same size (320GB).
The source drive has about 6 million files in ext3 filesystem and
the number of files keeps growing every day.  I tried rsync and
found it impossible because it requires so much memory (the
machine has 3G, but that was not enough).  I could use dd to copy
raw data, but I am wondering if there is a better way to do
this. Any hints?

Thanks,
Yusuke