rsync compares all files again and again

[Scott Mcdermott]

Elliot Wilen on 2011/10/14 -0700 @17:32:04:
> Here's an idea. Use inotify/incrond to build a list
> of which files or directories have changed since a
> certain time. Then when you run rsync, you can either
> feed the list directly, or use it to generate a
> subset of directories to look at.

if you're going to do that, just automate it:

http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/

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