On Dec 14, 2007 7:45 AM, Jeffrey Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
Support for not sending the directories (and thus only files that changed) at least is in CVS and will be released soon.
