Hello,
I always run rsync as follows: "sudo rsync -PaSHAXvi --del DIR1/
DIR2". I would think that whenever I see in the output of this rsync
command a few lines of the form A/B/... and then further down in the
output again a few lines of the form A/B/... (dots are dirs or files),
then every line b
On Thu, 2025-Jan-16, BP via rsync wrote:
I always run rsync as follows: "sudo rsync -PaSHAXvi --del DIR1/
DIR2". I would think that whenever I see in the output of this rsync
command a few lines of the form A/B/... and then further down in the
output again a few lines of the form A/B/... (dots a
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rsync doesn't really give much control over the order it does things in.
If you want to control when the deletions happen there is only
- --delete-before or --delete-during but both are slower than the default
- --delete.
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025, BP via
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There is no guarantee that rsync will do anything in any order since it
is going by the filesystem without any sorting. With --delete-during
the directory indexing and therefore the deletions are running in
parallel with file transfers. This means i
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
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
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I don't believe the transferring part of rsync will jump around. 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.
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> 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
