Rsync help needed...
lsk
ellsatish at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 14:58:20 GMT 2006
>>And a performance question: would it be faster to pass the complete list of
>>datafiles to rsync in one fell swoop, for instance using --files-from
rather
>>than running rsync individually on each one?
>
>
> It would be somewhat faster to pass the entire list because you incur
> the overhead of setting up the rsync process triangle once, not for
> every file. Furthermore, the rsync protocol is pipelined. If you have
> a network with high bandwidth but considerable latency, calling rsync
> once will take advantage of the pipelining while calling it for each
> file will wait for several network round trips per file.
Thanks Matt. I thought that might be the case.
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//******* lsk => Could you give an example with syntax for rsync using file
option "--files-rom=FILE".
Thanks,
lsk.
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