On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 09:31:10PM -0400, Lee Cullens wrote: > So, the option to override this behavior would be "--inplace" I > assume, and do yo know of any caveats regarding such locally?
If you're doing a local transfer, (which implies --whole-file), the only adverse effect of --inplace would be noticed if the destination files are in-use. So, if the destinations are for backups, that's not a problem. For transfers that are not using/implying --whole-file, using --inplace can make some updates as inefficient as if --whole-file had been used (i.e. if potentially matching data is overwritten before it can be used). > If I might be so naive, may I also ask about the "-H" option? Using -H tells rsync to look for files with identical inodes in the transfer and hard-link them together. It doesn't notice if a file is supposed to be hard-linked to a file outside of the transfer (since it doesn't know anything about files outside of the transfer). ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html