I'm using rsync to copy files from a NFS share to a user share on my new unRaid server. The problem i'm having is rsync seems to create all of the empty folders before transferring any files.

 

This means that all the folders get created on my first drive and because of my split level unRaid then no longer splits the files across disks as a disk fills up so it only copys until the first disk is full and then runs out of a space and i have to delete the empty dirs and start over... I can't seem to find any rsync option that disables this?

 

I suspect I would have the same problem if i did disk shares as it would create all the empty folders there as well...

 

Is there a way to avoid this?

i'm using:

rsync -av --stats --progress NFSSHARE USRSHARE

I'm using rsync to copy files from a NFS share to a user share on my new unRaid server. The problem i'm having is rsync seems to create all of the empty folders before transferring any files.

 

This means that all the folders get created on my first drive and because of my split level unRaid then no longer splits the files across disks as a disk fills up so it only copys until the first disk is full and then runs out of a space and i have to delete the empty dirs and start over... I can't seem to find any rsync option that disables this?

 

I suspect I would have the same problem if i did disk shares as it would create all the empty folders there as well...

 

Is there a way to avoid this?

i'm using:

rsync -av --stats --progress NFSSHARE USRSHARE

I don't know of any solution to this problem, let me know if you find one.

 

The way I handled this when I was doing the initial transfer to my backup unRAID was to use mc (Midnight Commander) to manually move empty folders to another disk before it started filling the folder with files.

 

Not very convenient and sort of defeats some of the features of the user share settings but since I only needed to do it that first time when a lot of folders were being created it was OK.