Does rsync use encription also for local tranfers?

[Steven Levine]

In <20100816120251.117710 at gmx.com>, on 08/16/10
   at 12:40 PM, forlists at gmx.com said:

Hi,

>Does rsync use encription also for local tranfers?

No.  In addition, rsync defaults to --whole-file; that is it delta-xfer is
disabled.  The effective speed per file should be similar to cp or copy,
depending on your OS.

>I'm asking because the speed of local transfers doesn't seem quite good
>for an USB 2.0 connected hard drive.

What is the speed according to --stats?

Steven

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