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...tory. Is there an option to tell rsync that the destination directory is empty ? Do you think that avoiding this call can improve rsync performances in this specific case ? I tried reading the source code, but I'm not exactly sure where this lstat call happens. Thanks a lot, Arnaud Aujon Chevallier

...Plus it has to do the > stat calls on the other end anyway so I doubt there would be much > performance benefit. > > Maybe --ignore-times would cause it to not look but I kinda doubt it and > I am too tired to do an strace right now ;) > > On 06/09/2016 05:32 AM, Arnaud Aujon Chevallier wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm currently using rsync to backup up to 1 TB of small files of >> relatively small files (hundreds of Ko mostly) >> >> My backup strategy is to use a full backup and then backup the diff >> every day using hardlink with the prev...

...tory be empty (just a good idea). Plus it has to do the stat calls on the other end anyway so I doubt there would be much performance benefit. Maybe --ignore-times would cause it to not look but I kinda doubt it and I am too tired to do an strace right now ;) On 06/09/2016 05:32 AM, Arnaud Aujon Chevallier wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently using rsync to backup up to 1 TB of small files of > relatively small files (hundreds of Ko mostly) > > My backup strategy is to use a full backup and then backup the diff > every day using hardlink with the previous backup. This means th...

...> stat calls on the other end anyway so I doubt there would be much >> performance benefit. >> >> Maybe --ignore-times would cause it to not look but I kinda doubt it and >> I am too tired to do an strace right now ;) >> >> On 06/09/2016 05:32 AM, Arnaud Aujon Chevallier wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'm currently using rsync to backup up to 1 TB of small files of >>> relatively small files (hundreds of Ko mostly) >>> >>> My backup strategy is to use a full backup and then backup the diff >>> every day...