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Yes in the general case. But in the case of a backup that's done daily the sender can say... there are all the files that changed since we last did this.

• ars 13y ago
  Rsync is designed for the general case. It's useful for backups, but not designed for them.
• tnhh 13y ago
  In this case, I think you want to be using unison rather than rsync.