checksum

[Wayne Davison]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 06:47:34PM +0100, mario at bortal.de wrote:
> Does the -t option use a checksum at all?

No, but rsync does -- as I just said, rsync automatically does a
whole-file checksum of every transferred file to ensure that it was
transferred correctly.  This always happens.

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

No.  The --checksum option is an extra, pre-transfer, whole-file test
for changedness that is used instead of -t to decide what files to send
(and thus slows rsync down considerably).

..wayne..