On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:34:22AM -0400, Jim Salter wrote:
> And there are my "untransferred files" - they're all the directories in
> my backup set.
It's an unintentional side-effect of how directories are handled that
they aren't counted in the transferred-file stats, even if they got
created
Rsync counts directories as files when it's creating the file list, but
does not count them as files in the "files transferred" statistic.
Example output from my backup logs, when initializing a new backup
volume (rsyncing a set of data to a completely empty filesystem):
[2004-07-09 03:03:37