On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 15:12 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is bad. If you mount the drive you may as well use cp or copy or > xcopy. The real strength of rsync is its extremely low level of > network traffic to sync the data. To do this rsync does checksums on > the data so if you run it over a mounted volume it will read all of > the date across the wire. Rsync runs best when there are two > instances of rsync running, one on each machine to be synchronized. > This way only checksums are passed over the wire before any data is > copied.
Good eye. I was trying to be creative and make it as transparent as possible on the Windows box. But, you're right, this would not be a good solution. Hmm, back to the drawing board. -- Gabriel Gunderson http://gundy.org /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
