rsync sends checksums of files back and forth. When one doesn't match, it
uses a rolling checksum algorithm to determine what parts of the file have
changed, and send only the changes.

- Alex
-- 
It is referred to as the Fibonacci meal. Today's dinner is the sum of
yesterday's leftovers and the day before's leftovers.


On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Jeffrey Race <[email protected]> wrote:

> Once I have uploaded say 10,000 files to
> the rsync server in the cloud, and I change
> a local file, how does rsync know to upload
> the delta bytes? Jeffrey Race
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