rsycnc copies all files

[Gareth]

Wayne Davison wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:51:42PM +0100, Gareth wrote:
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>>I notice that appends to text files results in the whole file being
>>transferred (as recorded by 'Total bytes written') rather than just
>>the 9 characters I append to the file.
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>I assume you're doing a local-only transfer, which defaults to
>--whole-file (which is more efficient on the disks than trying to
>figure out what the differences would be).  If you want to force
>the rsync algorithm to be used, specify --no-whole-file.
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>..wayne..
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Wayne - That's exactly what I needed... many thanks.


Gareth