How to force going deep, and complete, before spanning same level ?

[ericmarceau-rogers]

Is there a way to force rsync to perform the depth-wise search, locating the items within that deepest directory along any branch, perform the mirror of those items, before going back up one level to look for the next item to dive into, and to limit such search actions in a manner that only those details related to the branch being mirrored are in memory (to minimize memory usage) while that branch is being mirrored.

Not sure if I'm getting my point across, or if the rsync logic is doing that already.

Is searching down into adjacent directories deferred until the first directory's contents have been fully mirrored?