On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 07:45:20AM -0800, lsk wrote: > > > Matt I have strange results to report I transferred 300 oracle datafiles of > total 30 GB in size. Using the option " rsync -zv --no-whole-file --stats" > it took 1:15 min and using "rsync -cvz" options earlier had took 1:25 min so > there wasn't much time savings I thought it would be a big difference since > the files are there and only little is modified (header info) + additional > datafiles.
My guess is that the number of files and size dominates; since even for a small change, rsync has to write the entire file. You could try the (unsupported, not included?) --in-place feature, available in a patch somewhere. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html