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On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 03:08 +0100, Lapo Luchini wrote: > Robert Collins wrote: > > >Thats my point : rsync doesn't require the same file name to use the > >content for optimisation. You tell rsync what file to use as the basis, > >and what file to write to. > > > This, if you rsync one file at a time, but if you create the symlinks in > every directory, then you can rsync the whole directory tree with a > single command, and is much more efficient. (only one connection for all > the files) Huh? Doing what I suggest has nothing to do with the # of connections, the protocol supports it completely. It might, if you are spawning rsync locally each time, with the file list option, you could (easily) add a new file destination list, and that would provide the single connection, custom basis approach. > Anyway... this could lead to a more-optimized script to "download most > of it", not really to be included in "setup" so... Sure. Rob
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