The only thing you might be able to improve is to split it up into a
small number of separate runs, perhaps based on the top level directory
name. That may or may not improve your overall time: the reason it might
improve time is that rsync uses up some memory for every file in a run that
it cons
Okay, I've been lurking on this list for several weeks and have finally
gotten rsync to work well when transferring files from one box to
another. It is really great for passing lots of files from one machine
to another, i.e. ripped MP3 to my home Linux machine, as one example.
Now I am ready to t