Re: sync append only file

2008-02-07 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:38 -0600, chuang liu wrote: > Thanks a lot. Will "--backup --inplace" do the same trick? No, --backup --inplace will make a complete backup copy of the destination file and then compare the whole source file to the destination file. Matt > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Matt McCutc

Re: sync append only file

2008-02-07 Thread chuang liu
Thanks a lot. Will "--backup --inplace" do the same trick? On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:16 -0600, chuang liu wrote: > > I need periodically rsync a bunch of very big files. These files > > are append-only so changes are already at the end of the file. > > >

Re: sync append only file

2008-02-07 Thread Matt McCutchen
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:16 -0600, chuang liu wrote: > I need periodically rsync a bunch of very big files. These files > are append-only so changes are already at the end of the file. > > Because files are big, I assume it will take some time comparing the first > part of files. Is there a way th

sync append only file

2008-02-07 Thread chuang liu
Hi: I need periodically rsync a bunch of very big files. These files are append-only so changes are already at the end of the file. Because files are big, I assume it will take some time comparing the first part of files. Is there a way that I can tell rsync to sync only the extra part at the end