Thanks,
After 2 hours of nothing I stopped it and restarted without the checksum
option.
Now its working faster.
- Oliver
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:43:42 +0000, Brendan Kehoe <brendan at zen.org> wrote:
> Oliver Pfaff wrote:
>> ...
>> The command GRsync generated is: rsync -r -v --progress -c /media/USB1
>> /media/USB2
>>>> For the last hour the most recent message from output has been "sending
>> incremental file list"
>>>> There appears to be some activity on both disks.
>>>> Is this normal? or should I cancel the backup?
>>>>> I believe that's normal, in particular cuz you're running with '-c' so
> it's computing a checksum on everything. You can add a further '-v'
> which will tell you about everything it's skipping as well, if you want
> to make sure it's not hung on a disk read or something equally
unhelpful.
>> B
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