<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Alistair Dsouza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alistaird@gmail.com">alistaird@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>Literal data: 6,496 bytes</div><div></div></blockquote></div><br>That is how much literal data rsync had to send to finish the file, so it is not surprising that it finished quickly. See also the Total bytes received (about 40K), so it would not be surprising to have a 10K/sec limited connection finish in 4 seconds (in the example you cited it took longer than than, only averaging 5K/sec, presumably due to all the copying of basis-file data that went on).<div>
<br></div><div>So, in your testing, be sure to not use a file that contains repetitive data. When sending a new file, only the -z option helps rsync to send repetitive data with reduced bandwidth. But when copying over a partial basis file, the normal checksum matching will copy local basis-file data for both the partial data and for any matching chunks in the unsent part of the file that match chunks in the earlier part of the file.<br clear="all">
<br>..wayne..<br>
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