Wayne Davison wrote:
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:51:42PM +0100, Gareth wrote:
I notice that appends to text files results in the whole file being
transferred (as recorded by 'Total bytes written') rather than just
the 9 characters I append to the file.
I assume you're doing a local-only transfer, which defaults to --whole-file (which is more efficient on the disks than trying to figure out what the differences would be). If you want to force the rsync algorithm to be used, specify --no-whole-file.
..wayne..
Wayne - That's exactly what I needed... many thanks.
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