rsync takes a very long time to send file list
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I'm trying to use rsync to backup some files from an internal harddisk to a usb-drive. (I'm working on a wd mybook world NAS) There are two folders that I want to backup. A music folder and a video folder. The music folder(864 files, round about 10gb) worked perfectly in something about 1 hour (for…
Error Output
/shares/extern # rsync -avPc --stats /shares/Public/Shared\ Videos /shares/extern/
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Fix for: rsync takes a very long time to send file list
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The 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 onl…
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