[ale] rsync comparisons

Robert Coggins ale at cogginsnet.com
Thu Apr 1 11:32:55 EDT 2010


the -w copies the whole file if needed but how are the comparisons done.
 Will this compare on the whole too?

Rob

On 04/01/2010 11:22 AM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Robert Coggins <ale at cogginsnet.com> wrote:
>> Is there a way to do file level comparisons and not block level
>> comparisons using rsync?
> 
> You made me curious, so I looked.  See rsync manpage for "whole-file" option.
> 
>         -W, --whole-file            copy files whole (w/o delta-xfer algorithm)
> 
> 


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