On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:43:59PM +0100, Gabor Heja wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a setup where the disk is filled with great files. I would like to > use rsync to backup my data, but when rsync detects a file with different > content it starts to copy the matching parts of that file to a temporary > file and transfer the differences only and finally replaces the original > with the temp file. Of course this is the normal behaviour of rsync, but > when there is not enough free space on the target disk for the duplicate > rsync fails. > > I have read the manual, google'd around and have not found any way to solve > this thing with rsync. > > Is there any way I could tell the rsync to not use this method, so not > duplicate but delete the target file and transfer the whole? > > I am currently deleting some files from the target just before rsyncing, > but this is an ugly hack I think. > > Thanks! I think you should use the -W (--whole-file) : "copy files whole (w/o delta-xfer algorithm)" I also think it will still use date and size to decide if it should trnasfert the file.
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