Thanks Paul and Wayne. The behaviour is clear now. Regards, Alistair
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Alistair Dsouza <alista...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Literal data: 6,496 bytes >> > > That is how much literal data rsync had to send to finish the file, so it > is not surprising that it finished quickly. See also the Total bytes > received (about 40K), so it would not be surprising to have a 10K/sec > limited connection finish in 4 seconds (in the example you cited it took > longer than than, only averaging 5K/sec, presumably due to all the copying > of basis-file data that went on). > > So, in your testing, be sure to not use a file that contains repetitive > data. When sending a new file, only the -z option helps rsync to send > repetitive data with reduced bandwidth. But when copying over a partial > basis file, the normal checksum matching will copy local basis-file data for > both the partial data and for any matching chunks in the unsent part of the > file that match chunks in the earlier part of the file. > > ..wayne.. >
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