Darn, this #macos and #exFAT easter egg bit me again.

[rpsu@mas.to]

Darn, this #macos and #exFAT easter egg bit me again.

Trying to rsync files from one external drive (APFS) to another one (exFAT) slows down before my eyes. from 900kB/s to 600 kB/2 in a couple of hours. 1,1 Tb of data, millions of files and moving the files to an external exFAT formatted drive seems like a mission impossible with no heroes around.

F...ck.

https://mas.to/deck/@rpsu/113684236917083134

[rpsu@mas.to]

Restarting the rsync from the beginning takes roughly 1-2 hours extra for the comparison.

I'm gonna give up and just hand over the one huge 7z file and let the reciver extract it. I'm literally running out of time.

[jeni@drupal.community]

@rpsu I guess the same just happened to me! I didn't know that was a thing with exFAT.

Jeni Tehan (@jeni@drupal.community)

Trying to copy 137 projects off my old laptop to a USB drive has proven to be a massive PITA. Tried rsync and cp, both taking hours per project. Just wrote an ansible playbook and role to loop over each directory, zip it, move it, unzip it, and delete the source files. All great except unzipping on the USB takes ages. Sigh. Settling for zip and move and leave it. I just wanted a browsable backup! I guess I can move all the files back onto the laptop and unzip there after the new OS is installed.

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