Keith Moore wrote: > Wayne Davison wrote: > > >>There is a fix in the upcoming 2.6.4 for the -z option of rsync when >>transferring large files (those whose blocksize go past 64K). If you >>can, build either the 2.6.4pre3 release (listed on the web site) or the >>latest nightly tar file (which has a couple extra minor fixes in it): >> >>http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsync-HEAD-20050319-1628GMT.tar.gz >> >>It is the sending side that needs to have this fixed version (if you >>can't apply it to both sides). I would appreciate knowing if that >>fixes the problem for you. > > > I'll give it a shot tonight.
I installed the nightly tarball version in Cygwin and on my Fedora 3 box. The incremental backups work great now. Also, FWIW, data transfer "feels" a bit faster. (I sent this privately to Wayne a couple of days ago. My normal email server has been acting flakey; hopefully this will actually work now...) KM -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
