It creates the directories as it needs them. If you want to watch it looking through files it doesn't need to copy you can add -ii (see --itemize-changes for what the output means).
On 03/20/2018 05:24 PM, Bráulio Bhavamitra wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 5:49 PM Kevin Korb <k...@sanitarium.net > <mailto:k...@sanitarium.net>> wrote: > > Nothing there should be preventing incremental indexing. That means it > should start copying as soon as it finds a file that needs to be copied. > > Doesn't it tries to create all (empty) directories first? > > > On 03/20/2018 02:33 PM, Bráulio Bhavamitra wrote: > > > > > > Em seg, 19 de mar de 2018 11:34, Kevin Korb via rsync > > <rsync@lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync@lists.samba.org> > <mailto:rsync@lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync@lists.samba.org>>> escreveu: > > > > The performance of rsync with a huge number of files is greatly > > determined by every option you are using. So, what is your whole > > command line? > > > > rsync -avP /data-old/ /data > > > > > > On 03/19/2018 09:05 AM, Bráulio Bhavamitra via rsync wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm using rsync 3 to copy all files from one disk to > another. The > > files > > > were writen by Minio, an S3 compatible opensource backend. > > > > > > The number of files is dozens of millions, almost each of > them within > > > its own directory. > > > > > > Rsync takes a long time, when not several hours, to even > start syncing > > > files. I already see a few reasons: > > > - it first create all directories to put files in, that > could be done > > > along with the sync > > > - it needs to generate the list of all files before > starting, and > > cannot > > > start syncing and keep the list generation in a different > thread. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > bráulio > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., > > Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 > > Systems Administrator Internet: > > FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net > (work) > > Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net > <mailto:k...@sanitarium.net> > > <mailto:k...@sanitarium.net <mailto:k...@sanitarium.net>> (personal) > > Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ > > PGP public key available on web site. > > > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., > > > > -- > > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the > mailing > > list. > > To unsubscribe or change options: > > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > > Before posting, read: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > > > -- > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., > Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 > Systems Administrator Internet: > FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) > Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net > <mailto:k...@sanitarium.net> (personal) > Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ > PGP public key available on web site. > ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., > -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,
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