Transferring Large Files w/ Rsync - Initial Xfer
Eberhard Moenkeberg
emoenke at gwdg.de
Tue Jan 4 01:09:54 GMT 2005
hi,
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, d c wrote:
> I am trying to use rsync to synchronize very large files- some are close to 2gb in size.
> I have copied the files manually to a usb drive and shipped it to the
> location where the rsync server is running.
> At the remote location I copied the files to a directory which resides
> on the rsync server and is being pointed to by the module section
> rsyncd.conf.
> The source files have slightly chnaged and I now am trying to sync
> them. However, it seems that rsync has to copy the entire file itself
> the first time inorder to build the index (hash) needed in order to have
> more efficient transfers in the future.
> How can I get around this? I am pretty sure my problem is the initial
> transfer of data. Once I have done a complete sync then rsync should in
> theory only make block level changes based on checksum... right?? :)
Look at your (al least should be ) -vv statistics.
Look at the time parameters.
Cheers -e
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Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)
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