Rsync incremental file list slow

What could cause such a difference? The video folder hasn't that much more files in it. Yeah it is a lot bigger, but that shouldn't make a difference on generating the file list I think.

What do you think, is this behaviour normal? Are there any suggests what i can do to speed the whole thing a bit up? The -c option forces rsync to calculate a checksum for all files. This means that it is reading the contents of all the video files before it starts deciding which ones to copy. That is obviously slow. Consider removing that option if possible. You only need it in rare cases. See the description on the manual page for further details:.

Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 10 years, 5 months ago. Active 10 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 25k times. I'm using rsync 3. Note, no forward slash or directory name for destination - when these are left off rsync will create the directory as required.

Perhaps someone can clarify this. Using the above method starting the address with. The rsync command defaults to the users home directory, so this relative path to the home directory works.

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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Asked 5 years, 6 months ago. Active 5 years, 6 months ago. Viewed 8k times. Here is a full output of my bash session which will explain in detail what happens. I have some files on my local machine. I edit one of those files, using an editor such as vim. The file structure is fairly generic. I have a project root directory called , which contains many subfolders and source files.

Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Rsync file list slow - including dry runs Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 8 months ago. Active 3 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 2k times. Improve this question. Kyle Eadie Kyle Eadie 31 3 3 bronze badges. Why wholefile rather than the default incremental? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Thanks everyone for reading! Improve this answer. That's an interesting one.

The first letter of -exclude takes the remaining text as its argument up to the space. Oh well. Thanks for the response! It doesn't explain the reasons its slow only when the excludes are there.