Re: rsync

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Ole Tange wrote:

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:37 AM, guerrier wrote:
> > Hello
> > Can one use parallel to speed up rsync -avz dir1 dir2 ? 
> >  How would one phrase that?
>
> [...]
>
> I am not sure it will be happy with dirs called:
>
>  My brother's 12" records

Just thinking aloud on this one: --protect-args?


> If rsync had an option to create the missing dirs then that would 
> probably work.

Using the '--relative' option and a '/./' in the source directory could 
help.

E.g. of its use:

$ rsync -av --relative /src/./a/b/c/d /dest
(Will create all portions of /dest/a/b/c/d that don't already exist.)

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Best,
Ben