[Bug 3241] New: Multiple source to dest transfers in one invocation (to same host)

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3241

           Summary: Multiple source to dest transfers in one invocation (to
                    same host)
           Product: rsync
           Version: 2.6.6
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: avised at kbcfp.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


At the moment I might run two rsync commands:

% rsync file1 remotehost:/a/
% rsync file2 file3 remotehost:/b/

This means making two connections to remotehost.  If I wanted to copy all the
files to the same directory on remotehost then of course I'd write a single
rsync command, and this would be faster.  But if they are going to different
directories then I must invoke rsync twice, even though it's the same
destination host.

It would be nice (especially when copying to remote sites with high network
latency) to have a single rsync command do multiple copies, even if you don't
want a single destination directory on the remote host.  I would suggest some
syntax like

% rsync --to remotehost:/a/ file1 --to remotehost:/b/ file2 file3

rsync would connect once to remotehost and then transfer file1, file2 and file3
to the appropriate places.

I have seen feature requests to make rsync copy the same file to several
different hosts, and I've looked at batch mode in the documentation, but I think
this feature request is different.

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