[aklug] Re: Rsync file updating

On 12/05/2010 12:11 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> Question about rsync: say you are syncing local directory "localdir" to remotedir "remotedir". If a file in localdir is changed, but not deleted or moved, does rsync /delete/ the corresponding file in remotedir and /recreate/ it? (And, hence, create a new file with a new inode...) Or does it just /truncate/ the corresponding remote file and give it new data?
>

If the file changes locally the remote file is not deleted until it's replacement arrives.
  If you look for hidden files in a directory during a transfer (pause rsync w/ ctrl-s,
unpause w/ ctrl-q) you will see that it writes to a temporary file in the destination
directory.

- Shane
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Received on Mon Dec 6 08:43:04 2010