Rsync help needed...

[Mario Ohnewald]

Hello,

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 05:58 -0800, lsk wrote:
> I am back with the results..here are the options I tried on a 7.0 GB file.
> 
> =>No file on target (rm the file on the target and rsync) with "rsync -czv"
> it took 1 hr.
> =>File on target with but header info change on source  with "rsync -czv" it
> took 40 min
> =>File on target with but header info change on source and without
> checksum,with --no-whole-file "rsync -zv --no-whole-file" it took 25 min
> 
> I couldn't try the inplace option since the target server has older version
> of rsync we need to update that and then try that.
> 
> But from the results,I have few questions...
> 
> 1) does RSYNC does checksum by default ? If we do --checksum with option
> "rysnc -czv" is it a overhead that takes more time ? If I omit "-c" checksum
> option how reliable is that the file on the destination and source are same.
Have a look at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg15525.html

it helped me ;)