-----Original Message----- From: Jamie Lokier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 June 2006 19:43 To: Matt McCutchen Cc: Andrew Hodgson; [email protected] Subject: Re: Rsyncing a very large directory tree (over 50,000 files)
>Matt McCutchen wrote: >> Yes, rsync will send the complete file list each time it runs. It seems >> odd to me that building the file list would take 15 minutes; when I back >> up the system partition of my computer (300,000 files) rsync takes >> perhaps 5 minutes to build the file list. >That surely depends on the computer and your disk. >My laptop disk has about 2,000,000 files, and it takes longer than 15 >minutes to build the list when doing a backup with rsync. Also I have >to do two rsync runs, as it can run out of memory if I do the whole >tree with one. (192MB RAM). Hardware shouldn't be an issue, but I was a bit worried about it reaching some limit somewhere and not doing something correctly. I will try again when at work tomorrow. Andrew. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
