<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Le 3 août 2013 à 18:27, Wayne Davison a écrit :</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:25 AM, AZ 9901 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:az9901@gmail.com" target="_blank">az9901@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
<div id=":23g" style="overflow:hidden">If so, is there a way to tell Rsync the following ?<br>
"delete this top directory and all its files, but stop lacking time with comparisons against the incl/excl list for each element of this top directory"</div></blockquote></div><br>No, rsync will always make a list of the files and check if any are "protected" from deletion before it removes the file.<br></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Wayne,</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your answer !</div><div>Don't you think that it could be interesting to have the possibility to skip this checking, to ask Rsync to start deletion from the top of the hierarchy ?</div><div>It would for sure speed up deletion of huge directories, like common daily backup directories (made for example with --link-dest).</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much !</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Ben</div><div><br></div></body></html>