How to improve speed of a single file transfer over an unstable link?

[Wayne Davison]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 01:51:00PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> hmm, do both ends need to understand --append, or only the receiving
> side...

Both sides must understand it because both the generator and the sender
need to skip the data that they have in common (except for the purpose
of computing the whole-file checksum that is used to verify that the
transfer is OK).

..wayne..