Re: rsync over Iridium modem, 240 bytes per second

2008-01-27 Thread Michael Ashley
Thanks for you advice Matt. > From reading the code, it looks like rsync will truncate to the last > "token", where a token is either a match with a block of the old > destination file or a chunk of literal data of length up to the sending > rsync's CHUNK_SIZE constant, by default 32KB. You could

rsync over Iridium modem, 240 bytes per second

2008-01-26 Thread Michael Ashley
Dear rsync gurus, I'm using rsync to transfer large amounts (megabytes per day!) of data over an Iridium modem link (240 bytes per second) from Antarctica. One problem is that the Iridium link has a mean uptime of perhaps 30 minutes. Implementing partial transfers is crucial, so I was using rsy