At 15:57 26.03.2009 -0700, dnk wrote: >Good day, > >I have been doing some tests with rsync on windows (client) to backup >to a linux server. > >I started out with cwrsync, but ran into the dreaded "File name too >long (91)" error. Apparently due to an issue with the cygwin portion >of it. So I was then testing with a newer version of cygwin (1.7 beta) >as the long file name issue was resolved. > >In testing that with some large files (PST in this case), rsync seems >to take over the whole file, and not just the differences.
The delta algorithm is only used if you access a remote server (e.g. with server::dest/path). For local syncs it is usually faster to just copy the whole file than to reconstruct it from the old file plus differences. There are switches to ease this behaviour a bit (like change dest in-file instead of copying it, append at the end) but unless you know what you're doing you should keep the default behaviour. I also use cwrsync but the few cases where the path was too long I just shortened the source. Of course that may not be possible for you. bye Fabi -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
