On 30/09/2011 00:57, Jason Usher wrote: > Let's say I have a slow, or high latency (or both) link between two > hosts, and transferring data is expensive. > > Is it possible with rsync (or any other tool like rsync) to maintain > a local metadata cache, such that I can rsync without transferring > data to and from the hosts about what files are already in place ? > > That is, I already "know" what is out there and don't need to check > anything - I can just use the state information on the sending end to > send only the data required, and don't need to traverse the remote > filesystem for sizes/datestamps/hashes/etc. > > Does this exist ?
Check out the checksum database patches. Maybe these could help in your case... -- 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
