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A look at rsync performance

A look at rsync performance

Posted Aug 23, 2010 19:39 UTC (Mon) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678)
In reply to: A look at rsync performance by jmorris42
Parent article: A look at rsync performance

What rsync flags are you using? I use -avP --delete to sync a multi-terabyte tree and it performs admirably.


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A look at rsync performance

Posted Aug 26, 2010 11:31 UTC (Thu) by chojrak11 (guest, #52056) [Link]

-H for example can be a problem here. Again quote from the manpage:

Note that -a does not preserve hardlinks, because finding multi-
ply-linked files is expensive. You must separately specify -H.

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