On 7/29/07, Matthias Schniedermeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say i wanted to exclude 100.000 files by naming them one by one in > a file to be used by --exclude-from. > > Can rsync cope with that without bigger problems?
Rsync would work correctly, but file-list building would probably be slow because rsync would check each file against all 100,000 exclude patterns. Instead, you might consider (1) using per-directory filter files or (2) preparing a list of files you do want backed up and feeding it to rsync with --files-from. To prepare the list for #2, you could use "find" to list all the files on the system and "comm" to remove excluded files from that list. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
