Martin Pool wrote: > Ian Kettleborough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1. How much memory does each file to be copied need. Obvisiouly I have too many > > files. > > Hard to say exactly. On the order of a hundred bytes per file.
I may have misunderstood the question, but maybe we should point out that, on the receiving end, each file needs at least an amount of *disk space* equal in size to the file as a new file is constructed before the old file is deleted. I am not sure which end the 100 bytes per file applies to, and I guess that is the RAM memory footprint?. Does rsync need 100 bytes for each file that might be transferred during a session (all files in the specified directory(ies)), or does it need only 100 bytes as it does one file at a time? Trying to learn, also, Randy Kramer