Re: Force delta transfers on rsync?

2008-07-04 Thread Brian Lindholm
Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 02:59:20PM -0400, Brian Lindholm wrote: it would be even better if it only rewrote the portions of large files that had actually changed instead of resending the entire file. You can use --no-whole-file with --inplace (since rsync's default u

Force delta transfers on rsync?

2008-07-04 Thread Brian Lindholm
Is there a way to force rsync to perform delta-transfers even on local drive-to-drive copies? The reason I ask is that I've started using a USB flash drive as a medium for "poor man's off-site backup". Rsync does a beautiful job on avoiding overwrites of unchanged files, but it would be even