Re: question about the recursive algorithm

2025-01-16 Thread bp25--- via rsync
> I don't believe the transferring part of rsync will jump around. How about the deleting part? > It will transfer files it deems need it in the order it finds them > which will be 1 dir at a time. Though when it enters a child dir that > doesn't mean it is done with the parent dir. In the sen

Re: question about the recursive algorithm

2025-01-16 Thread bp25--- via rsync
Thanks for your message again. I appreciate your answers. I don't mind about the order of the files, and neither really about the order of the directories: I'm interested about whether rsync might transfer some files into a directory, then transfer some files into another which is outside of the f

Re: question about the recursive algorithm

2025-01-16 Thread BP25 via rsync
Thanks Kevin, but I don't understand your message, or at least how it answers my "real question" (last paragraph)... and by the way --delete defaults to --delete-during for current versions of rsync as far as I know... > rsync doesn't really give much control over the order it does things > in. I

Re: [HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

2024-07-09 Thread BP25 via rsync
Also note the SORTED TRANSFER ORDER paragraph in the rsync manual. I don't think this paragraph is relevant to my question because I understand it's only relevant to multiple nonrecursive rsync commands; whereas I have one single recursive rsync command. -- Please use reply-all for most r

Re: [HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

2024-07-09 Thread BP25 via rsync
The only explanation I can find for such behaviour is that incremental recursion is being used, which leads me to deduce that the lines with path outside of the directory "A/B/...", can only indicate folder creation. But yet I cannot buy this explanation because why would such "atypical fol

[HELP] rsync recursive jumps across directories

2024-07-09 Thread BP25 via rsync
Dear rsync community, I hope that someone can help me with this issue, probably related to my lack of understanding of how rsync recursive works. In the output was displayed something like this (I don't remember in the lines below whether rsync was deleting or creating files or bot