How could be "total transferred file size" more than "total file size" ?

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Oct 17 11:22:04 MDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:17:34AM +0530, paresh masani wrote:
> Could you please tell me how would it be possible that "total
> transferred file size" is more than "total file size" ?

I believe that the only way this can happen is for a resend to occur
(when rsync notices that a file doesn't match the checksum and transfers
it again).

..wayne..


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