rsync taking a while on really large files
Paul Slootman
paul+rsync at wurtel.net
Fri Jan 15 13:43:41 MST 2010
On Fri 15 Jan 2010, David Trammell wrote:
>
> I saw the -W option, but I wasn't sure about how it behaves as the
> man pages don't have many details, and I thought there might be
> other options I missed. For -W the man page just says "copy files
> whole (w/o delta-xfer algorithm)"
Take a moment to properly read the manpage, the above indicates you've
never gone beyond the option summary.
Further on, the options are discussed in detail:
-W, --whole-file
With this option rsync’s delta-transfer algorithm is not used
and the whole file is sent as-is instead. The transfer may be
faster if this option is used when the bandwidth between the
source and destination machines is higher than the bandwidth to
disk (especially when the "disk" is actually a networked
filesystem). This is the default when both the source and des‐
tination are specified as local paths, but only if no batch-
writing option is in effect.
Paul
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