Transferring Large Files w/ Rsync - Initial Xfer

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

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
-- 
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)