Re: Skip file content checking in rsync
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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?
> ...
Check --inplace and --whole-file options in rsync manual.
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Sarunas Burdulis
Systems Administrator
Department of Mathematics, Dartmouth College
http://math.dartmouth.edu/~sarunas
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