On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 05:44:25PM -0400, Moshe Jacobson wrote:
> I just did a test and found that --partial will prevent rsync from
> transferring the entire file again when the mtimes vary but the sizes
> are the same.
No, --partial tells rsync to keep a partially transferred file. Rsync
will a
Thanks for the prompt reply, Wayne.
I just did a test and found that --partial will prevent rsync from
transferring the entire file again when the mtimes vary but the sizes
are the same. I suppose this is sufficient, but how does it determine
that the files are the same if it's not doing a check
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 04:46:43PM -0400, Moshe Jacobson wrote:
> Is this something that would be hard to implement?
Yes, it would be rather awkward in the current protocol. The way things
currently work, the receiving side needs to have all relevant info
already available in order to decide what
Hi rsync folks,
I understand that by default, rsync will re-copy a file if the
timestamp differs, but the size is the same.
Sometimes, though, I have large files whose mtime have been changed
but are otherwise identical. It seems a solution to this is
--checksum, but it seems like --checksum co
