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That's not incremental
Authored by: advocate on Apr 16, '04 06:42:43PM

Sorry, I should have made it clear that I don't really care about network bandwidth, I care about long-term storage requirements. So sure, rsync will only spend a handful of packets to send over that one byte difference in a ten gigabyte file, but you're keeping both copies of the whole ten gigabyte file (with a one byte difference between them) on the backup disk afterwards.

It's too bad about resource/info forks. If there weren't multiple forks to deal with, just storing binary diffs by timestamp would do nicely, I would think. And once in a while you'd want to merge the older diffs into the full backup for performance.



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