Re: Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-12 Thread Patrick Pollen
These are both a weak and a strong checksum for each chunk of the file from start to finish. So lets take an example. If a file were 7 bytes and the logical block size for rsync by default being 700, it would send : 1) 4 Bytes x 7/700 = 400 Bytes 2) 16 Bytes x 7/700 = 1600 Bytes

Need hint for my question regarding the working of rsync.

2013-11-11 Thread Patrick Pollen
Hello, Since English is my second language, forgive me for any typing errors. I have been studying rsync for my academic project. I learned quite a lot but I need little help. My question is, does rsync sends all checksum of a file at once or in batches. For example suppose I have a 2 GB file, so