Faster rsync?

[Eliot Moss]

On 8/29/2023 9:43 AM, Eliot Moss wrote:
> On 8/29/2023 9:17 AM, Mario Emmenlauer via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 29.08.23 14:32, Adam Kessel via Cygwin wrote:
>>> I've found rsync to be painfully slow on large folders -- hours to sync thousands of files, even 
>>> when they already match size and --size-only is used. It's much faster between native Linux boxes.
> 
> I've been told (on this list) that how you mount the Windows drive in Cygwin matters.
> 
> I use this in my /etc/fstab:
> 
> d:/ /cygdrive/d ntfs binary,posix=0,user,auto,notexec 0 0
> 
> Unfortunately, it's still not as quick as I think it ought to be.
> (If someone out there can recommend better settings, I'm open!)
> 
> I regularly rsync a collection of hundreds of files, each about 2Gb in size.
> 
> Windows describes the partition as an NTFS Basic Data Partition.  It takes
> rsync a long time to get started (i.e., to figure out which files need
> transferring).
> 
> My rsync uses these flags:
> 
> rsync -avuP --partial --partial-dir=.rsync-partial --log-file=... --log-file-format=...

These flags seems to give speedy directory scanning:

rsync -r --chmod=D2700,F600 -t -z -p -v --size-only --partial-dir=.rsync-partial

Regards - EM