It does normally take some time to analyze large trees of files. It has
to call stat() on each file to get the size and timestamp.
However, 15 hours seems a bit excessive even though I have never tried
to do this on Windows or a NAS system. Just to be clear, is your
--link-dest parameter a singl
I've been running rsync as a cygwin task on Windows Server 2008 for about two
months now. I'm using the --link-dest option to do a daily 'snapshot' of the
contents of a server containing about 10TB of data, about 13 million files, to
a Linux based NAS server. Things started out great but I soo
