If you want help with your problem you're going to have to describe exactly what you're doing; what command you're running, what version of rsync, and so forth.
See: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html On 10/17/2012 04:43:18 AM, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > > > > The volume I am differencing a snapshot with has > 595,400 dirs (424994 w/link count=2) > & 5,703,820 files. > > The diff volume starts with > 233,764 files (a large multi-day diff) > but 289,215 dirs! > > I ran a script to clean out all the empty dirs...final tally: > same # of files: 233764, but > #dirs: 5462. > > Thats about a huge amount of extra dirs -- I'm seeing > almost a 10% reduction in the diff size by removing all > the empty dirs. > > At this point will likely run a clean up script on the diff vol > before > I copy it to longer term storage, but it would be nice if the > no-empty-dirs option worked... ;-) Karl <k...@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html