On Qui, 21 Jan 2010, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> 2) it seems to me that rsync processes *all* the files and not only the ones
>> that really have changed, which would take long with my 2G home dir.
>> Maybe
>> some special option of rsync?
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <edua...@kalinowski.com.br> writes:
> How are you calling rsync? That's exactly what it doesn't. It only transfers
> files that have changed, and only the parts that have changed.
>
> Naturally, it needs to look at each file to see if they are equal or not, it
> cannot guess which files are changed. By default this is based on the
> modification time (and possibly size, I'm not sure), which is rather fast.
I'm always calliing it without the -u option. Maybe that's why it is so slow??
I do exactly:
rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/pendrive1
Rodolfo
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