How does rsync deal with insertions in the middle of a big file? For example, assuming each letter below represents a block of data within a file, if the original file changed from:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZA to: ABCDEFGHI123JKLMNOPQ456RSTUVWXYZA Will rsync be efficient enough to just somehow 'insert' 123 and 456 within the file or will it modify/try to backup all the blocks from 123 onwards? -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie