> As it is, I have several options. In a way, I wish I could tell rsync to do 1st half of alphabet to one drive and then with next command tell it to do the 2nd half of alphabet. That would likely split the data in half for each one.
You can do that, at least with a small kludge I'm sure. rsync supports excluding directories and file names. As an example: rsync -avx --port=873 --exclude={.cache,.nv,'google-chrome*',DiskImages} /home/mark mark@truenas1:/mn t/MyPool/mark/Backups/science/. There's a test open (?? -n maybe ??) that allows you to see what it would do. I'm sure you can figure that part out. The above line is just in a script file for me HTH, Mark