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

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

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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