Re: Synchronize two computers

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On Qui, 21 Jan 2010, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> 2) it seems to me that rsync processes *all* the files and not only the ones
>>    that really have changed, which would take long with my 2G home  dir.
>> Maybe
>>    some special option of rsync?


Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> writes:

> How are you calling rsync? That's exactly what it doesn't. It only  transfers
> files that have changed, and only the parts that have changed.
>
> Naturally, it needs to look at each file to see if they are equal or  not, it
> cannot guess which files are changed. By default this is based  on the
> modification time (and possibly size, I'm not sure), which is  rather fast.


I'm always calliing it without the -u option.  Maybe that's why it is so slow??
I do exactly:

    rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/pendrive1

Rodolfo