OK.. didn't notice adler32 wasn't rolling... The reason I was asking is
this:
this is from the rsync code:
/* a non-zero CHAR_OFFSET makes the rolling sum stronger, but is
incompatible with older versions :-( */
#define CHAR_OFFSET 0
Anyone knows exactly what an ideal value for CHAR_OFFSET is?
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:14:42 +, Andrew Gideon wrote:
I was thinking that an alternative to links, which do nothing to
preserve space when small file changes have been made, would be using
LVM snapshots. Instead of creating a new directory for a new backup,
and specifying --link-dest to
On Mon 28 Sep 2009, Andrew Gideon wrote:
The --update option is also useful in this regard? What would happen if
--inplace were used but --update were not?
--update only influences what files are considered for transfer, not how
that transfer is performed; hence it is completely irrelevant
