Tim Conway wrote:
Use "-a" unless there's a reason you need to retain different permissions, owners, etc..
Okay - Thanks
I don't know the nature of your filesystems, but I have a guess... on at least one end is a network filesystem - NFS, SMB, NCP, AFS, something like that.I was actually testing locally, but plan to use NFS eventually when I'm more familiar with rsync.
rsync has the "-W", or "--whole-file" option, which tells it that there's no point in trying to read the file for changes - if it needs transferring, just send the whole thing, because the LAN overhead will waste the savings in WAN.I was looking for the opposite of this :-) Wayne kindly pointed it out, --no-whole-file.
I guess this should only be used for low bandwidth WAN connections?
Tim - Thanks for your help, and for taking the time to show a sample run. Much appreciated.
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