Apologies for the later reply, The "Dirvish" server (Centos 5.6) was on 2.6.9, upgraded to 3.0.8 and it does make a change, not a huge change, but positive one :-)
Thanks! On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Paul Slootman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon 30 May 2011, shouldbe q931 wrote: > >> run. The quantity of files means that just the "receiving file list" portion >> of an rsync run takes ~30 minutes... > > Are you still using rsync versions < 3.0.0 ? Newer versions do > "incremental transfers", meaning that it's not necessary for rsync to > traverse the complete tree before beginning the transfer; it's now done > per directory. Of course, if all your files are in one directory then it > doesn't give any improvement... > > > Paul > _______________________________________________ > Dirvish mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish > _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
