On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:29:46PM -0700, Todd Papaioannou wrote:
> Not sure I have the mojo to mess with the patches though!
I applied the --append patch to the CVS source, so if you want to snag
version 2.6.7cvs, you can grab it via the latest "nightly" tar file:
http://rsync.samba.org/ftp
Wayne,
Thanks for the swift answers and insight.
> > However, the stats shown during the progress seem to imply that the
> > whole transfer is starting again.
>
> Yes, that's what rsync does. It retransfers the whole file, but it
> uses the local data to make the amount of data flowing over
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:50:39PM -0700, Todd Papaioannou wrote:
> where both theFile and /path/to/dest are local drives. [...]
> rsync -u --no-whole-file --progress theFile /path/to/dest
When using local drives, the rsync protocol (--no-whole-file) slows
things down, so you don't want to use it
