prune empty dirs doesn't seem to be doing so.... && optimizations?

I'm using: (according to ps) /usr/bin/rsync --archive --human-readable --acls --xattrs --hard-links --no-inc-recursive --prune-empty-dirs --whole-file --one-file-system --compare-dest=/home/. --exclude=**/.recycle/** --exclude=CPAN-ishtar-build-cache/** /home/.snapdir/@GMT-2012.10.11-02.23.25

Re: collecting the differences between a local host and remote archive to third local location (a usb device)

Benjamin Ward wrote: but it seems to not behave the way i thought it would. How did you think it would work? I use it and will describe what it does w/my example: I'm using: (according to ps) /usr/bin/rsync --archive --human-readable --acls --xattrs --hard-links --no-inc-recursive --pru

Re: collecting the differences between a local host and remote archive to third local location (a usb device)

I wonder if rdiff would do this nicely...? http://librsync.sourcefrog.net/doc/rdiff.html On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Benjamin Ward wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I'm trying to archive to a remote host but the size of the data to copy is > prohibitively large to consider doing the sync over th

Re: collecting the differences between a local host and remote archive to third local location (a usb device)

You can use rsync --write-batch (and write-batch-only). Justin On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 02:33:22PM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > I wonder if rdiff would do this nicely...? > http://librsync.sourcefrog.net/doc/rdiff.html > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Benjamin Ward wrote: > > > > > Hi eve