Pavlos Christoforou <pavlos@gaaros.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Evan Gibson wrote:

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How well does it handle the differences between packed and unpacked data.fs files?

rsync was designed to update two files efficiently over a slow connection. It will split a file into pieces, calculate running checksums and update only the parts that differ. I expect that if the files are very different (as it would be the case after a pack operation) rsync would not be very efficient. And now I am thinking about it, it probably won't do what Anthony wants. I don't remember if it has an option to store/get just the differences. It would be useful to use as a Data.fs backup mechanism over a network.

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