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rstuart4133 on Oct 29, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: A fun optimization trick from rsync

Unless you actually want whole files stored in a directory tree on your USB, --only-write-batch does exactly that. From the man page:

   you can feel free to write the batch directly to some portable media

Jedd on Oct 29, 2018 [–]

Wow .. how long has that been there?

(Sadly it's clear it was in fact there long before I wrote a workaround in response to not finding it.)

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