More --fuzzy suggestions

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Mon Mar 14 22:57:10 GMT 2005


On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 02:43:05PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote:
> Another note:  if you want --fuzzy to help you with compressed files
> that have differing contents, you should use the --rsyncable option
> to gzip to compress the files.

Looks like you already thought of that.  Let me further state that
using --delete-after instead of --delete lets --fuzzy find renamed
files (which would otherwise be removed before they could be used)
but it is not absolutely required if all you need is fuzzy matching
for updated versions.

..wayne..


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