I am wanting to implement a backup solution that will copy all of the files that have changed in a particular directory every 15 minutes. My first thought was to use the find command, but running the following script resulted in the output below. Basicaly it took 90 minutes to find the files that had been changed in the last 15 minutes which is a bit counter productive.

Is there something faster than find? Should I write my own C program?


<Script testfind.sh>
date
find /data1/docimg/ -mmin -15 -exec echo {} \;
date
</script>

<output>
Thu Apr 7 08:18:51 EDT 2005
/data1/docimg/
/data1/docimg/05975272.tif
/data1/docimg/05974024.tif
/data1/docimg/testfind.sh
/data1/docimg/05975414.tif
/data1/docimg/00446508.tif
/data1/docimg/00449674.tif
/data1/docimg/00449695.tif
/data1/docimg/00449013.tif
/data1/docimg/05975537.tif
/data1/docimg/05974971.tif
/data1/docimg/05975563.tif
/data1/docimg/00449750.tif
/data1/docimg/00449758.tif
/data1/docimg/05975592.tif
/data1/docimg/25050005.tif
/data1/docimg/05967185.tif
/data1/docimg/25050031.tif
/data1/docimg/05975631.tif
/data1/docimg/00448535.tif
/data1/docimg/00449129.tif
/data1/docimg/05975649.tif
Thu Apr 7 09:45:57 EDT 2005
</output>

Maybe something like this example...

Hello Homey,

Thanks for the input, but when i tried it this was the result (It took about the same 90 minutes):


<output>
Thu Apr 7 10:57:36 EDT 2005
/data1/docimg/05975992.tif
/data1/docimg/05971584.tif
/data1/docimg/05975328.tif
/data1/docimg/testfind.sh
/data1/docimg/05962609.tif
/data1/docimg/05976244.tif
Thu Apr 7 12:24:24 EDT 2005

There is something strange going on there as it doesn't take 90 minutes to find every file on my computer.
Does it act like that for any directory or just that one?

Its only on that directory, but it does have a large number of files. But when I was using NT to server those same files I had a Visual Basic program that could locate all of the files updated in the last 15 minutes in just 5 minutes.