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Re: sysinstall v2


From: ibotty <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 21:11:31 +0200

> Well... technically, rsync attempts to only copy the parts that have
> changed, and it's usually pretty good at *not* copying the whole file
> unless it really has to.

yes, it splits each file into small(er) chunks. each of them gets a hash.
when one of those hashes on the remote host is different from yours, it
downloads only this chunk.
it gets really fast and uses low bandwidth.

i regard rsync as a really nice piece of work.

~ibotty



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