Very surprising behaviour with --files-from

[Steven Levine]

In <20101210171139.GD27025 at digitalkingdom.org>, on 12/10/10
   at 09:11 AM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> said:

Hi,

>$ rsync -i -aPv --ignore-existing --files-from=/tmp/list /backups/
>ut00-s00010:/backups/ building file list ...
>3937 files to consider

>That's not such a big deal, but the list I'm *actually* using has twenty
>*million* files in it.  At a couple hundred files a second, if it's going
>to check 4 times the number of files, that's a *huge* time waste.  What's
>going on?

I'm not quite sure what's going on either.  What I recommend is cut your
list down to 1 file and use

  rsync -ii -aPv --ignore-existing --files-from=/tmp/list \
        /backups/ ut00-s00010:/backups

If this does not answer the question add one more -v.

Steven

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