Re: speedup is always 0.99

2013-02-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Grant wrote: > I'm syncing from a USB disk to my hard disk like this: > > rsync -vr /path/to/usb/disk/dir/ /path/to/hard/disk/dir/ > > But the speedup is always 0.99 which I think means it is just copying > the files each time instead of syncing them. What could be wrong? Missing -t option. (T

Re: speedup is always 0.99

2013-02-25 Thread Chris Dennis
On 22/02/13 21:23, Grant wrote: I'm syncing from a USB disk to my hard disk like this: rsync -vr /path/to/usb/disk/dir/ /path/to/hard/disk/dir/ But the speedup is always 0.99 which I think means it is just copying the files each time instead of syncing them. What could be wrong? - Grant If

Re: speedup is always 0.99

2013-02-25 Thread Brian K. White
To clarify a little more, trying to do deltas locally doesn't actually get you anything, because you still have to do all the same disk work on each end locally even if only deltas were sent over the network. If both ends are the same machine, generating and reintegrating deltas is just more cp

Re: speedup is always 0.99

2013-02-22 Thread Kevin Korb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Both of your paths are local. In that case rsync forces --whole-file. The delta transfer is only for reducing network bandwidth usage when rsync is operating over the network. On 02/22/13 16:28, Tony Abernethy wrote: > Check the TIMESTAMPS on both s

RE: speedup is always 0.99

2013-02-22 Thread Tony Abernethy
Check the TIMESTAMPS on both source and target. (you probably want -av or such (instead of -vr) to include ...) -Original Message- From: rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-boun...@lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Grant Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 3:24 PM To: rsync@lists.samba.or