According to the man page "--append ... implies --partial (since an interrupted transfer does not delete the file), but conflicts with --partial-dir and --delay-updates."
So, I'm now almost 56% finished, and my dropping KBps transfer speeds are now back up to the low 40 KBps!!! :) Scott On Sat, December 30, 2006 7:51 am, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 29 Dec 2006, Scott C. Kennedy wrote: >> >> The cygwin version of rsync on my parent's machine is 2.6.6 and >> '--append' is a 2.6.7 feature! :( > > hmm, do both ends need to understand --append, or only the receiving > side... > >> So, until cygwin updates, I came up with this idea.... >> >> 1)'split' the file into 100 MB chunks on both ends. >> 2) rsync the two directories, thus the file date & size for MOST files >> will be correct and then do an '--inplace' to continue updating. > > You will have to use -t so that the times are updated; you didn't use it > in the example you gave. > > And still use --partial... > > > Paul Slootman > -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html