checksum

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 04:55:40PM +0100, Mario Ohnewald wrote:
> i would like to know when the checksum (-c option) gets executed excatly
> and where. [...]
> The way i want/need it would be:
>    1.  make checksum on (full) source file
>    2.  transfer file
>    3.  check checksum on (full) destination

No, you're confusing --checksum, a pre-transfer check, with something
that rsync does automatically: a whole-file checksum verification after
every update.  You don't normally need to use -c as long as you use -t.

..wayne..