[BBLISA] Live Sync / Backup / Sync without crawling

[Edward Ned Harvey]

> Rsync should be fine.  And searching for a specific entry in a
> directory should be way faster than looking at every entry to see if it
> needs copying.  Right?

That's the point of the thread - rsync will need to crawl the directory to see what's changed.  If we're talking about a whole filesystem, even a simple crawl can take hours.  In fact, I use rsync to backup one of my filers nightly, and it runs for 6 hours a day, across locally attached GB.