On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 12:51 -0800, Some user wrote: > its installed and working but i have no idea what im doing wrong. > The command i'm using: > > #rsync -rv /media/mir1/ /media/mir2/ > > Now this works, recursive and verbose. However it takes approx 2 minutes > and the output at the end is: > > sent 734973140 bytes received 42 bytes 10888491.59 bytes/sec > > forgive me if im wrong but that means its sent 734973140 bytes... I thought > rsync only sent the differences? > > I have looked through --help and found nothing, currently going through the > 'man' but their examples are dead simple (using no more paramaters than > mine) and only do changes, how come mine seems to do full file? > > (mir1 and mir2 are on same partition so same type)
Rsync doesn't do delta transfers when the source and destination are both local because there's no point. See: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-September/018603.html 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