On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:44:25PM -0400, Moshe Jacobson wrote: > I just did a test and found that --partial will prevent rsync from > transferring the entire file again when the mtimes vary but the sizes > are the same.
No, --partial tells rsync to keep a partially transferred file. Rsync will always do an efficient update up a file unless --whole-file is specified (or implied by a local transfer). This means that the generator sends some per-block checksum data to the sender, and the sender sends some block-matching commands to the receiver, and the receiver copies the file locally with no actual file data going over the wire (when the files were actually identical in contents, but not in mtime). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
