my mistake, the /oldvol mounts should be different dirs under root.

cd /oldvol1/dir1; find . ... | cpio -dmp /newvol1/dir1 & cd /oldvol2/dir2; find . ... | cpio -dmp /newvol2/dir2 &

The /old/1, /old/2 would also work; you'd be reading from the same source mount though, unless the individual dirs were mounted separately.

mount filer:/vol/old/1 /old/1 mount filer:/vol/old/2 /old/2

-----Original Message----- From: Toal, Dave To: 'Jim Davis '; 'toasters@mathworks.com ' Sent: 3/13/03 3:45 PM Subject: RE: Moving files but not .snapshots?

Jim,

If there are subdirectories in what you're copying, one way to speed things up is mounting the same pair of vols (old, new) multiple times, and running the find | cpio in each subdir. Use more than one cp host if you saturate i/o or cpu on the first one.

cd /oldvol/dir1; find . ... | cpio -dmp /newvol1/dir1 & cd /oldvol/dir2; find . ... | cpio -dmp /newvol2/dir2 &

What I am seeking is a bit like folklore.

How about a spam filter that bounces any posts that don't contain keywords? "filer, vol, ndmp, spam" ?

-----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis To: toasters@mathworks.com Sent: 3/13/03 2:47 PM Subject: Moving files but not .snapshots?

I want to move two big directories from an old volume to a new volume, but just the files -- not the snapshot subdirectories. So far I've tried

find . -type d -name '.snapshot' -prune -o -print | cpio -pdm /newvol

from the adminhost, which works but isn't blazingly fast. Are there any other ways people can suggest?