< The receiving rsync first creates a temporary file in the destination 
directory with a name in the format ".foo.XXXXXX", where "foo"
< represents the name of the source file.  Only when rsync is interrupted does 
it convert the temporary file to a partial file named exactly "foo"
< and placed in a --partial-dir if one is specified.
<
< Perhaps the file you see is really a temporary file, not a partial file, and 
the receiving rsync is dying in such a way that it doesn't have a chance to 
store the temporary file as a partial file.  Rsync reuses only partial files, 
not temporary files, so this would explain rsync's failure to reuse the 
transferred data on the next run.  To confirm (or
< refute) this idea, what is the name of the file that appears in the 
destination?  And what were the last few lines of output from rsync before it 
exited, leaving the file behind?
< 
< Matt


Ah, that explains it.  I was killing the rsync script and that didn't give it 
time to convert the temporary file to a partial file.  I just tried it again, 
but this time I stopped the daemon on the other side and it worked as expected.

Thank you.

- Kyle

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