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Yep, I have an rsync script which I run from WSL to backup both my WSL home directory and a bunch of files on a separate Windows drive to an external hard drive
by nickjj 2y ago
Yep, I have an rsync script which I run from WSL to backup both my WSL home directory and a bunch of files on a separate Windows drive to an external hard drive.
It takes something like 8 minutes for rsync to get the metadata about files before it starts potentially transferring anything. On native Linux a comparable amount of files takes less than 10 seconds.
- rbanffy 2y agoThe worst case scenario is when the data has to go over the WSL border twice (one to be processed by whatever Unix thing you are using) and another when it's written to an NTFS filesystem somewhere else. My personal happy space is actually Cygwin. It's Unixy enough and doesn't cross the WSL border. Not great because NTFS doesn't perform that well under it, but definitely better than WSL.