Re: Behaviour of --append with modified files

2014-12-31 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Mark Stead wrote: > Is there any option that I've overlooked whereby I can force rsync to > synchronise modified files (in addition to handling appended files). > No, rsync expects you to handle just appended files in --append mode. You should use include/exclud

Behaviour of --append with modified files

2014-12-15 Thread Mark Stead
We have a rsync'd filesystem which generally contains very large files that only grow. We've specifically used the --append option to handle these files - since otherwise rsync is effectively CPU bound the whole time. I'd always assumed that any files that were simply modified (without a change