A 'thing' like this has been discussed, but it may not work in
practice. If the files are compressed, even changing one bit in the
original file may change a very large part of the compressed file,
this is because of the way the compression works.
Tapio Lehtonen
Robert Davidson wrote:
>
>
> The problem I have, is that a lot of the time the files I'm downloading
> change filename, but not by much.. maybe just a different version or
> something like that, so rsync downloads the whole file again, one example
> I guess would be emacs, it has some biggish files, some of the archives
> are 10mb or so.
>
> So, what I'm wondering, is if someone could implement a 'thing' in rsync
> to determine if the file that already exists on the system has a similar
> filename and size to one it would normally download all over again, and
> rename it to the new name, and then update it with the changes, rather
> than downloading the whole 10mb again.
>
> Regards,
> Robert Davidson.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
