Hi Dave, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > Sigh, another request for the --files-from I promised to write over 6 > months ago, but I've been so overloaded at work lately that I don't know if > I'm ever going to get to it. Perhaps someone else will have to do it.
He he, happy to see a general consensus for this feature! > It turns out that back in rsync 2.3.2 and earlier there was an optimization > (which I wrote and actually was the primary reason that I volunteered to be > maintainer of rsync for a while) that kicked in when there was list of > includes with no wildcards followed by an --exclude '*', and there was no > --delete. Instead of recursing through the files and doing comparisons, it > would just directly open the files in the include list. It only had to be > on the sending side, you might want to try 2.3.2 on your sending side to > see if you get a significant performance boost. Andrew Tridgell took it > out in 2.4.0 because he didn't like how it changed the usual semantics of > requiring all parent directories to be explicitly listed in the include > list. Whoops! That did the trick for me! It took me 6 minutes to transfer 250 GB! Too bad it has been turned down. I have the impression it would satisfy most, if not all, "--files-from" lobbyists. > Your --delete-not-in-list suggestion has not been considered before, but > something like that makes sense to me. Would be really great. Looking forward to version 2.5.6 ;-) Thanks a lot, Stephan -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
