I'm trying to see if I should switch from rdist (which I've been using
for years) to rsync. I'm not interested in the security aspects, as
the job is transferring between various internal sites. I'm _very_
interested in speed, because the filesystem in question is _very_ large:
almost 3G right now. It doesn't change all that frequently, so it's not
really data transfer time which is important, but rather speed to
determine that no update is needed.
Anyway, I'm having a problem: rsync is insisting on re-distributing just
about all the files. I know they're not different, because rdist is
keeping them up to date. Some that rsync wants to re-send haven't been
touched since 1997!
Is there any way I can convince rsync to tell me _why_ it wants to
resend those files? Either that information isn't included in the -v
(or -v -v or -v -v -v) output, or it's there but I can't decipher it.
This seems like a basic, and extremely useful, bit of information; is
there some way to get it?
I'd like to run some tests on the differences in speed between rdist and
rsync, but I can't afford to have all 3G of data resent every time!
Thanks!
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