checksum

[mario at bortal.de]

Hi,

> 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.
>


Does the -t option not only look after the modification time?
Does the -t option use a checksum at all?

The --checksum options creates checksums file-blocks, but not of the whole
file, right?

So when/how does rsync make sure it transfered my files onto my
destination absolutly correctly?


Cheers, Mario