On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:42:44AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > are similar. This makes rsync want to fetch all of the files even > though I have them already, just because the dates are different.
According to the 'rsync' man page: rsync is a program that behaves in much the same way that rcp does, but has many more options and uses the rsync remote-update protocol to greatly speed up file transfers when the destination file already exists. !! The rsync remote-update protocol allows rsync to transfer just the dif- !! ferences between two sets of files across the network link, using an !! efficient checksum-search algorithm described in the technical report that accompanies this package. IMHO, 'rsync' copies only the deltas. I've no trouble with this. Liebe Grüße, Nora. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] IM-NETZ Neue Medien, Berlin http://www.im-netz.de/ WWW von Frauen für Frauen, Hamburg http://www.w4w.net/ Lesbian Computer Networks, Helsinki http://www.sappho.net/