Re: Long time needed for "Building file list" Any suggestions ?

[Greger Cronquist]

But isn't building this exact file list what an ordinary call to rsync 
is supposed to do (when not forcing checksum calculation)? So why is 
rsync so much slower than find?

/Greger

Tim Conway wrote:

Good idea
find / -ctime -1h |rsync -a --files-from=- / destination
No perl needed.  You might want mtime instead, though.
 

 

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