Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

[Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>]

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:01:46PM +0100, Michel Verdier wrote:
> On 2024-01-18, Andy Smith wrote:
> > If you use --delete-after (and some other options) then rsync has to
> > check every file before it can do any work, whereas normally it will
> > find a few files to work on and start work, meanwhile incrementally
> > scanning for more.
> 
> Not sure of that.

Could check the man page then like I said.

    Some options require rsync to know the full file list, so these
    options disable the incremental recursion mode. These include:
    --delete-before, --delete-after, --prune-empty-dirs, and
    --delay-updates.

Thanks,
Andy

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