On 10/4/06, Gabriel Gunderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 18:01 -0600, Bart Whiteley wrote: > > Man page indicates that rsync uses file size and mod-time by default. > > Force checksums instead with -c. > > Interesting. So, the idea of mounting a SMB share over the VPN and > rsyncing might work well after all?
That probably depends on your definition of "well". :-) Even if rsync doesn't checksum the individual files, it still has to scan directory trees and read file metatdata, both of which I would expect to be order(s) of magnitude faster when done locally (with the results then streamed by rsync to the other end) rather than incurring network transactions for all of the directory reads. Chris /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
