Adam Megacz wrote: > Just curious. I was investigating incremental dumps today, and found > out that if you change just one byte in a file, the entire file is > included in the incremental dump (not just the block that changed).
An incremental dump includes all of the directories and just the files that changed. Any change no matter how small results in the entire file being sent. A full dump includes all of the directories and all of the files. Adding support for an 'rdiff' dump format to provide much smaller incremental dumps is on the roadmap/wishlist. Jeffrey Altman
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