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Re:A fun optimization trick from rsync by rstuart4133 on Monday October 29, 2018 @03:44AM (#18325654)
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
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Re:A fun optimization trick from rsync by Jedd on Monday October 29, 2018 @06:37AM (#18326334)
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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