On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:10 -0800, bjquinn wrote: > I understand that if you want to only transfer changed blocks across the > network that the remote machine must be running rsync server and the local > machine must be running rsync client. What if I don't care what gets > transferred over the network, I just care what gets written to disk (i.e. > only changed blocks)? Is there an option to do that in rsync without > needing an rsync server on the other end?
To expand upon Matthias's response: The main effect of --inplace is to make rsync update each destination file by rewriting it in place instead of renaming a new file over it. However, there is a check so that when the delta-transfer algorithm is enabled, meaning that information about which blocks are unchanged is available, rsync will skip writing those blocks to disk. You'll probably need to enable the delta-transfer algorithm explicitly with --no-whole-file because rsync disables it by default when the "network traffic" that would be optimized is local. Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
