The recursive switch

[Kevin Korb]

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Yes, -a includes -r and a bunch of other things.

- --no-i-r disables the incremental recursion and forces rsync to hold
the entire tree in memory in addition to fully scanning the tree on
both ends before copying anything.

On 03/01/12 14:39, Elliot Wilen wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:
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>> Without -r rsync will ignore all directories even if the path
>> you specified is a directory.  That is what recursive means.
>> 
>> If you are having memory usage issues make sure you are running
>> rsync version 3 on both ends and check that you aren't using any
>> of the options that conflict with incremental recursion (like
>> --delete-before).
> 
> Which contradicts what I wrote about using --no-i-r. I defer to
> Kevin.
> 
> But again, note that -a includes -r.
> 
> 
> Elliot Wilen Network Administrator/Postmaster Communications and
> Information Systems MPR Associates, Inc. 2150 Shattuck Ave., Suite
> 800 Berkeley, CA 94704 Phone: (510) 849-4942 Fax: (510) 849-0794
> 
> www.mprinc.com
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