Comment by newsoftheday
Comment by newsoftheday 8 hours ago
It only sends the changed parts of files (the diffs) is my understanding which saves bandwidth.
Comment by newsoftheday 8 hours ago
It only sends the changed parts of files (the diffs) is my understanding which saves bandwidth.
However this is only really good for slow connections. If your connection is faster than about 50MB/s then the delta calculation mechanism becomes the bottleneck. On fast connections you should use the -W option for rsync which switches the delta algorithm off.