Incremental Diffs?

[Kim Scarborough]

> > I'm using it to backup files from one computer to another, and it
> > works exactly as I thought it would, except that it seems to be
> > copying entire files over when they've change rather than the
> > differences.
>
> What specifically leads you to that conclusion?

I have it set to extra verbose, and I've been watching the files transfer
over. When I append 2K to a 100MB text file and re-rsync, it's pretty
obvious it's transferring 100MB, not 2K + whatever overhead the diff takes
up.

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