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It only sends the changed parts of files (the diffs) is my understanding which saves bandwidth.
by newsoftheday 9mo ago
It only sends the changed parts of files (the diffs) is my understanding which saves bandwidth.
- mnw21cam 9mo agoHowever this is only really good for slow connections. If your connection is faster than about 50MB/s then the delta calculation mechanism becomes the bottleneck. On fast connections you should use the -W option for rsync which switches the delta algorithm off.
- newsoftheday 9mo agoSaving on transmitted bandwidth costs is more important to me than speed of transmission for my use cases which I feel are likely to be common use cases.