NAME¶
pcp - Recursive, parallel copy of directory trees
SYNOPSIS¶
pcp [options] <source> [<source> ...] <destination>
DESCRIPTION¶
The
pcp command is a is a wrapper that starts several
sync
processes to copy directory trees in parallel. This is allows much better
copying performance on file system that have relatively high latency when
retrieving individual files like S3QL.
Note: Using this program only improves performance when copying
from an S3QL file system. When copying
to an S3QL file system,
using
pcp is more likely to
decrease performance.
OPTIONS¶
The
pcp command accepts the following options:
- --quiet
- be really quiet
- --debug
- activate debugging output
- --version
- just print program version and exit
- -a
- Pass -aHAX option to rsync.
- --processes <no>
- Number of rsync processes to use (default: 10).
EXIT STATUS¶
pcp returns exit code 0 if the operation succeeded and 1 if some error
occured.
SEE ALSO¶
pcp is shipped as part of S3QL,
http://code.google.com/p/s3ql/.
COPYRIGHT¶
2008-2011, Nikolaus Rath
