i stand corrected! i have not looked in detail at rsync's function since
digital unix, i did not realize it had made such improvements! on old
unixes, such as digital or even sco, rsync doesnt do that. it was much
dumber back then i guess.
On 10/15/07, Danny Yee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> dan wrote:
> > rsync only determines if a file has been changed or not, then either
> > transfers the whole file or doesnt.
>
> Actually, rsync does block checksums and will only transfer those
> blocks of a file that have changed. See
> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/tech_report/node2.html
> "only the pieces of A that are not found in B (plus a small
> amount of data for checksums and block indexes) are sent over
> the link"
>
> Danny.
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