[arch-general] rsync for mirroring

[Piyush P Kurur]

On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 11:54:53AM +0300, Nezmer at allurelinux.org wrote:
> I never used rsync before but If I understand correctly :
> rsync hashsums the files in src and dest and checks for file lists . It
> removes and adds files according to the file lists and compares the
> hashsums of existing files . If the hashsum is different , It replaces
> the files in dest with the ones in src .
> 
> Rsync is not a binary delta implementation .

  At least the wikki says rsync *is* a  binary delta implementation. If
only parts of a file is modified then only those parts are sent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsync

Regards

ppk