Syncing moved files

[Martin Gadbois]

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Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On 9/22/06, Martin Gadbois <martin.gadbois at colubris.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way that rsync could, for all known files, sync paths instead
>> of file content whenever local and remote files are identical (using
>> sha1 or md5)?
> 
> The experimental --detect-renamed option provided by the patch
> "patches/detect-renamed.diff" will make rsync incrementally transfer
> each moved file using the receiver's unmoved file as the basis.  That
> will cut out almost all of the network traffic but will not reduce
> disk I/O.  I suppose you want the receiver to skip the transfer
> entirely and just move the file if --checksum is on and the checksums
> match.  The patch doesn't have this behavior yet.  Someone who
> understands the patch better than I do should add it.

I tought that the equivalent of --checksum was done each time rsync was
launched (that's why it is fast!)
If --checksum is off, we could optimize on the base name of a file:
tmp/img_1234.jpg on the source machine could be rsync'ed with
Vacation/img_1234.jpg, and moved too...

I'll install the patch and see if it helps. If not, I'll try to fix it...

Many thanks for all the answers!


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