Copying or moving lots of files

Q: I need to copy a lot of files and directories to another directory. What’s the fastest way:

A: If the source_directory does not have any largefiles (that is, files greater than 2GB), you can use cpio –p like this:

cd /source_directory
find . | cpio –pudlmv /destination_directory

To determine if the source_directory has any largefiles, use fsadm:

fsadm /source_directory

It will say: nolargefiles if no largefiles exist on this directory.
For directories with large files, you can use fbackup and frecover:

cd /source_directory &&
fbackup -i . -f – |
( cd destination_directory &&
frecover -Xsrf – )

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