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Old 04-13-2009, 02:34 PM   #1
genmaicha
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Rsync problem: copying entire file when almost identical


Hello. I'm practicing my rsync-skills. Can anyone tell me why rsync insists on copying the entire source file when syncing two almost identical files, instead of just the diff? My example file is an 677 MB iso file.

Code:
$ ls -l 
total 661920
-rw-r--r-- 1 rick users 677138432 2009-04-13 12:26 original.iso
I create a slightly modified version by copying and appending some bytes to the end:

Code:
$ cp original.iso modified.iso

$ echo hello >> modified.iso
rsync insists on transfering the entire file (yes, I know it's all local in this example)...

Code:
$ rsync -av --stats original.iso modified.iso 
sending incremental file list
original.iso

Number of files: 1
Number of files transferred: 1
Total file size: 677138432 bytes
Total transferred file size: 677138432 bytes
Literal data: 677138432 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 42
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 677221182
Total bytes received: 31

sent 677221182 bytes  received 31 bytes  26557694.63 bytes/sec
total size is 677138432  speedup is 1.00
As you can see, 677138432 bytes are sent and 0 bytes match... what am I missing?
 
Old 04-14-2009, 10:56 AM   #2
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Rsync

Hi,

This only seems to happen when both files are local, when a remote target is specified it matches the duplicate data.

It also matched the duplicate data when I specified username@127.0.0.1: in the target.

I assume it is less work for Rsync to operate this way locally?

Cheers,

zer0x
 
  


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