2009/8/26 <[email protected]> > Really? My understanding of rsync & rdiff-backup was: They will scan the > source directory for changed files, and only copy the files that have > changed. My understanding was: If a file has changed, the whole file > will be sent (and not just the changed sections within the changed file.)
You must have looked very deeply into rsync & co. From man rsync: *It is famous for its delta-transfer algorithm, which reduces the amount of data sent over the network by sending only the differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination.* G.
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