cut-off time for rsync ?

Dirk van Deun
Wed, 01 Jul 2015 08:06:57 -0000

> If your goal is to reduce storage, and scanning inodes doesnt matter,
> use --link-dest for targets. However, that'll keep a backup for every
> time that you run it, by link-desting yesterday's copy.

The goal was not to reduce storage, it was to reduce work.  A full
rsync takes more than the whole night, and the destination server is
almost unusable for anything else when it is doing its rsyncs.  I
am sorry if this was unclear.  I just want to give rsync a hint that
comparing files and directories that are older than one week on
the source side is a waste of time and effort, as the rsync is done
every day, so they can safely be assumed to be in sync already.