Rsync copies more than the changes

Ole Tange ole at tange.dk
Mon Oct 7 04:54:01 MDT 2013


On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Wayne Davison <wayned at samba.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote:
>>
>> You are using rsync on local files.  Rsync forces --whole-file whenever it
>> isn't networking.
>
>
> ... so override that with the --no-whole-file (--no-W) option on a local
> transfer.

Worked as expected. Thanks.

I would not have asked if --no-whole-file had been mentioned in the
--inplace section in the man page.


/Ole


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