Le 6 avr. 2013 à 17:15, Matthias Schniedermeyer a écrit : > On 06.04.2013 16:57, AZ 9901 wrote: >> >> Is there a way to tell Rsync to directly delete backup directories at >> the top of the hierarchy without browsing them ? > > No. > > Deleting a directory-tree has to be done "file by file" and "directory > by directory" there is no magic "remove that mountain of files"(*). >
Matthias, thank you for your answer ! I made some tests, I created a directory with 300k files in it. I deleted it with Rsync, then with rm command. I did this test several times. On my server, it took about 20 seconds with rm, about 40 seconds with Rsync. In the Rsync deamon logfile, I can see a "del." line for each file of the directory, beginning from the top down. Does Rsync compares each file against the incl/excl list to know if it can be deleted ? If so, is there a way to tell Rsync the following ? "delete this top directory and all its files, but stop lacking time with comparisons against the incl/excl list for each element of this top directory" Certainly that it could speed up deletion with Rsync :-) Thank you very much ! Ben -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
