[rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff large files

2007-09-24 Thread Stephen Zemlicka
Does rdiff transfer the whole file or just the part that changes as in rsync? My situation is I need to backup over the internet. I cannot modify the server to run the rsync server on it. Currently, my connectivity is limited to a mapped drive. Since rsync transfers the whole file, I was

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff large files

2007-09-24 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Stephen, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Stephen Zemlicka wrote: Does rdiff transfer the whole file or just the part that changes as in rsync? It just transfers the parts that have changed, but it uses a similar algorithm to rsync to do this (i.e. calculate the checksums of each block in the