I believe some work on this was happening at one point in rsync (not specific to OS X).
In terms of your issues specifically, would the fuzzy option possibly help you? > --fuzzy find similar file for basis if no dest file Could you report if it makes a difference for your use case? --------------------------------------------------------------------- This email is protected by LBackup, an open source backup solution. http://www.lbackup.org -- 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