reducing file list bytes transferred

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Mon Oct 1 23:22:32 GMT 2007


On 10/1/07, Peter Salameh <psalameh at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Has the rsync team considered an rsync option which would remember the
> last file list on both ends, and only send changes to the list?

Perhaps a more natural approach is to use the delta-transfer algorithm
to send the file list.  Jamie Lokier suggested this approach here:

http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-August/018345.html

Matt


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