Wayne Davison wrote:
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:59:20PM -0400, Brian Lindholm wrote:
it would be even better if it only rewrote the portions of large files
that had actually changed instead of resending the entire file.
You can use --no-whole-file with --inplace (since rsync's default update
method is to write out a new file and rename it into place). You might
also use --append for things like log files if you're SURE that data has
only been appended (and be sure to limit that copy to just what you want
to update via appending).
..wayne..
Wow. These two options did the trick nicely. [And now that I study the
manpage more carefully, I see that --no-whole-file has been there all
along.]
Updates to the flash drive are faster than before and involve
*substantially*
fewer bytes being written to "disk".
Many thanks for the quick reply. I love rsync.
Brian
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