Just to add another/different option.
I had a good 760G 2.5" hard drive left over when I upgraded my laptop to
SSD. For less $20 I bought a USB3 case for it. It runs at aboutt SATA
speeds and needs no other power.
While bigger than a USB stick it's still small enough for my backpack.
Joe
On 07/11/2014 10:44 PM, Steven Haigh wrote:
On 12/07/2014 3:24 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 07/11/2014 01:49 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti
<[email protected]> wrote:
Try giving the "--size-only" option to rsync.
Better yet, try "--modify-window=1". From the rsync man page:
--modify-window
When comparing two timestamps, rsync treats the
timestamps as
being equal if they differ by no more than the
modify-window
value. This is normally 0 (for an exact match),
but you may
find it useful to set this to a larger value in some
situations.
In particular, when transferring to or from an MS
Windows FAT
filesystem (which represents times with a 2-second
resolution),
--modify-window=1 is useful (allowing times to differ
by up to 1
second).
- Pat
Hi Pat,
--modify-window=1
3 hr - 9 sec
--modify-window=10
3 hr - 8 sec
Rat! I really though this sounded right
I did notice that the bugger the file (with no changes)
the longer it took. So, I think they are still doing
check sums.
Any way to turn of the check sum testing?
Now you're starting to get off task... How can you sync something if you
don't know if it matches? Sure, you can only go off timestamps - but
what then? It leaves you with a situation where you may get files that
are different and you'll never know.
You'd be much better off getting a better flash drive (ie not add hack
upon hack that may not help) and fixing the root cause of the problem.
Hell, get a small laptop HDD and put it in a USB caddy case. Get a small
SSD (they're cheap!) and put that in a case...
