On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 06:53, jw schultz wrote: [...] > In many cases invoking --partial is worse than not. If you > are rsyncing a 4GB file and transfer is interrupted after > 500MB has been synced you get a 500MB file which now has > less in common with the source than the 4GB file did.
A more useful behaviour for --partial would be to concatinate the partial download to the end of the old "basis", rather than replace it... this leaves you with a much more useful "partial" result to resume from. Of course this behaviour could be _very_ confusing to people... :-) -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
