On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 18:36 +0100, Janusz Jurski wrote: > But it seems to me that this is against the description of the "partial" > option in rsync manual.
> In my opinion, the partially > transferred file shall be kept for future reuse and shall not overwrite > the destination file. > Also, the current > behavior is inconsistent with the "--partial-dir" option (the manual > says for "--partial-dir" that such partially copied files are kept in > the specified directory to speed up next transfers). The --partial option is behaving as documented. If you want --partial-dir's better behavior, you have to pass --partial-dir (or the environment variable RSYNC_PARTIAL_DIR). > Note that the "partial" option makes no sense otherwise because it > actually equals to the "in-place" option Not exactly. With --inplace, rsync writes new data into the original destination file; the new data will be visible through other hard links to the destination file. Without --inplace, rsync writes data to a new file and moves it over the original on successful completion or (assuming --partial is given) interruption. 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