--fuzzy question

[Julian Pace Ross]

Not sure if this got through to the list as I haven't received it back as
usually happens...


> Hi,
> I have a file that changes slightly in size every day and has the timestamp
> appended to it.. for example on the 14th may:
>
> MybackedUpFileBlabla_200905140219.bak
>
> This is transferred by rsync to another server.
> The next day that file is deleted and substituted by a new file on the
> sender.. the new file would be named for example (15th May):
>
> MybackedUpFileBlabla_200905150221.bak
>
> The new file will be generally slightly larger in size, but the containing
> directory is exactly the same.
> I was hoping to use --fuzzy and --delete-after, but it doesn't seem to be
> speeding up the transfer. I am assuming that this is because I have both a
> change in name AND a change is size/modtime?
>
> I was looking into the find_fuzzy function, but i'm not sure if there's
> anything I can tweak in there to make this work.
>
> Thanks for any help
> Julian
>
>
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