Hi, I used to rsync a /home with thousands of home directories every night, although only a hundred or so would be used on a typical day, and many of them have not been used for ages. This became too large a burden on the poor old destination server, so I switched to a script that uses "find -ctime -7" on the source to select recently used homes first, and then rsyncs only those. (A week being a more than good enough safety margin in case something goes wrong occasionally.)
Is there a smarter way to do this, using rsync only ? I would like to use rsync with a cut-off time, saying "if a file is older than this, don't even bother checking it on the destination server (and the same for directories -- but without ending a recursive traversal)". Now I am traversing some directories twice on the source server to lighten the burden on the destination server (first find, then rsync). Best, Dirk van Deun -- Ceterum censeo Redmond delendum -- 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