--delete-during acts like --delete-before
Carlos Carvalho
carlos at fisica.ufpr.br
Thu Sep 9 15:16:07 MDT 2010
Craig Bell (Craig.Bell at standard.com) wrote on 9 September 2010 18:26:
>Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
>
>> My observation of current rsync in "Incremental Recursion"-Mode
>>(default), with default "--delete", is that the files it deletes are
>> about 1000 files further down the list than the file it currently
>> transfers.
>
>> So question is: Are there more than 1000 files in total?
>
>No, there are fewer than one hundred files. So perhaps it's an issue of scale?
>In other words, if I had thousands of files (each in its own subdirectory), then
>--delete-during would eventually start to behave more "infix" as I expected?
>
>Thanks for the insight Matthias... -cheers, CSB
Did you try with --no-i-r? In your somewhat particular case it might
do what you want.
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