>>And a performance question: would it be faster to pass the complete list of >>datafiles to rsync in one fell swoop, for instance using --files-from rather >>than running rsync individually on each one? > > > It would be somewhat faster to pass the entire list because you incur > the overhead of setting up the rsync process triangle once, not for > every file. Furthermore, the rsync protocol is pipelined. If you have > a network with high bandwidth but considerable latency, calling rsync > once will take advantage of the pipelining while calling it for each > file will wait for several network round trips per file.
Thanks Matt. I thought that might be the case. -- //******* lsk => Could you give an example with syntax for rsync using file option "--files-rom=FILE". Thanks, lsk. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rsync-help-needed...-t1170765.html#a3146482 Sent from the Samba - rsync forum at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
