rsync and many files

[Brian K. White]

On 6/6/2011 12:54 PM, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Mon 06 Jun 2011, Cliff Simon wrote:
>>
>> Hm...I´m using 3.0.3 at the Dest-Server, but now I saw that the Source-Server has 2.6.9
>>
>> Do I have to enable incremental recursion and from which version is incremental supported?
>
> Both ends have to be at least 3.0.0 to enable the incremental recursion.
> It should kick in automatically, unless you enable an option that
> prevents it; search the man page for 'incremental' and the second
> paragraph you find explains all.
>
>
>
> Paul

That will make it begin to transfer files sooner, and require less ram 
while working, but how will it make it take less total time?

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bkw