On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 14:01:02 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? i just noticed --inplace. which i suppose would work well if the files are fixed length record oriented. haven't used it though. generally, i use rsync over the internet (or over a lan, if the files are very large, e.g., 1.5GB), so the bandwidth is so much larger a factor that i ignore disk writing efficiency. tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo http://bopolissimus.blogspot.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: "gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 672F4C78" Mene sakhet ur-seveh -- 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
