[ale] Copy of FS to PNY 32G USB Stick

[James Sumners]

The Patriot X series are proper quick --
http://www.newegg.com/Patriot-Memory-USB-Flash-Drives/BrandSubCat/ID-2204-522

I use one to install Xbox 360 games to --
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007JPVYFO/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>
wrote:

> I picked up a 32GB PNY USB stick off Amazon and decided to copy 22G of my
> development root onto it as backup. I develop on CentOS 5.7 in Ubuntu
> 12.04.  How? chroot into that tree.
>
> I have rsync scripts I use to backup RPis and BBBs to a 1T USB SATA
> device.  I copied that onto the stick after I formated it ext3.
>
> It was slow.  Dog slow.  My scripts are using options that would slow it
> down so I decided to do an initial seed using CP.  That took almost a day
> to do.
> Now the rsync script can get changes as I decide to.
>
> I've never tried to copy a system that large to a USB stick .  I've coped
> files, but not that many.  The SATA 1T on USB is much faster.  It is just a
> 1T SATA drive in a sled.
>
> Is that the nature of these USB sticks?  I'm just curious.
>
> Chris
>
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