Re: [HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

2024-07-09 Thread Ian Z via rsync
On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 11:37:19AM GMT, BP25 via rsync wrote: > In other words, the recursion did not happen linearly (according to > the tree structure of either the sender or the receiver). This is > very counter-intuitive: I'd expect that every line which lies > between any two lines of the

Re: [HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

2024-07-09 Thread BP25 via rsync
Also note the SORTED TRANSFER ORDER paragraph in the rsync manual. I don't think this paragraph is relevant to my question because I understand it's only relevant to multiple nonrecursive rsync commands; whereas I have one single recursive rsync command. -- Please use reply-all for most

Re: [HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

2024-07-09 Thread BP25 via rsync
The only explanation I can find for such behaviour is that incremental recursion is being used, which leads me to deduce that the lines with path outside of the directory "A/B/...", can only indicate folder creation. But yet I cannot buy this explanation because why would such "atypical

[HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

2024-07-09 Thread BP25 via rsync
Dear rsync community, I hope that someone can help me with this issue, probably related to my lack of understanding of how rsync recursive works. In the output was displayed something like this (I don't remember in the lines below whether rsync was deleting or creating files or