On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 09:47 -0400, Bob Goodwin wrote: > If I tried to rsync the larger file with the smaller it simply > replaced the larger file and I lost information. The first sentence in rsync(1) is: "Rsync is a fast and extraordinarily versatile file *copying* tool." (my emphasis). Perhaps you were mislead by the name. The "synchronization" is at the level of sets of files, i.e. it is not comparable with synch tools such as SyncML which synchronize records (such as contact info) between distributed databases. Rsync compares file modification times and overwrites the older file with the newer. It does this by computing a minimum set of block-by-block updates. At no time does it try to understand the contents of the files. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
