Re: do I always have to use either --checksum or --times ?

2022-07-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
... That's ... Behaviour confirmed. That is *not* cool. On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 04:18:18AM -0400, Kevin Korb wrote: > Yeah, unfortunately rsync's --checksum doesn't even employ obvious > optimizations that the man page says it does. There is no reason for it to > checksum files that only

Re: do I always have to use either --checksum or --times ?

2022-07-15 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Yeah, unfortunately rsync's --checksum doesn't even employ obvious optimizations that the man page says it does. There is no reason for it to checksum files that only exist on one end or are different in sizes yet it does. Just try doing an rsync of a huge tree to an empty dir. You won't run

Re: do I always have to use either --checksum or --times ?

2022-07-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell via rsync
--checksum is only slower than re-copying if your network connection between the hosts is similar in speed (or faster than) each host's local disk access. If local disk access is 10x your network link, it is definitely not slower than re-copying. Having said that, it really is *very* slow, and