Hi, > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:55:40PM +0100, Mario Ohnewald wrote: >> i would like to know when the checksum (-c option) gets executed excatly >> and where. [...] >> The way i want/need it would be: >> 1. make checksum on (full) source file >> 2. transfer file >> 3. check checksum on (full) destination > > No, you're confusing --checksum, a pre-transfer check, with something > that rsync does automatically: a whole-file checksum verification after > every update. You don't normally need to use -c as long as you use -t. >
Does the -t option not only look after the modification time? Does the -t option use a checksum at all? The --checksum options creates checksums file-blocks, but not of the whole file, right? So when/how does rsync make sure it transfered my files onto my destination absolutly correctly? Cheers, Mario -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
