Rsync slow with hard links

Kevin Korb via rsync

2017-04-12 23:37:22 UTC

In Linux I would handle this with a pvmove. I don't know how to make it
happen in Windows other than using a disk image.

BTW, you will probably find -i to be much more useful than a second (or
even a first) -v

Post by Rene J Suarez-Soto via rsync
I am running rsync throuhg cygwin and trying to "mirror" two hard drives
(hd1 -> hd2). HD1 have tons of hard links (I will say about 2 millions)
because I do monthly backups and have about 13 folders and maybe about
150,000 files. Every month when I make a new snapshot I would also want
to mirror HD1 to HD2. I tried running
rsync -aH --progress -vv /cygdrive/d/ /cygdrive/e/
I though this was going to be a very quick process because not many
files changed but surprisingly it takes over a day. Is there a faster
way to mirror drives with hard links?

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