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Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> Notice the --whole-file part there. |
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Are there perhaps plans to remove this? |
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Before the reversed ChangeLogs, this option was useful, |
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but perhaps now removing it would really lower the traffic? |
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One would have to make a bunch of tests over 1-2 months, perhaps: |
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a) two with rsyncing every day |
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b) two with rsyncing 1/week, and perhaps even |
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c) two with rsyncing 1/month. |
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(where "two" means one with and onewithout --whole-file) |
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and add up the traffic. |
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I am not sure whether servers can be set up to implicitly assume |
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--whole-file to save possibly some resources needed to calculate |
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the checksums. This would give wrong results, of course. |
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In this case, it would be necessary for the tests to set up a |
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server with full support, locally. In the latter case, one could |
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also use historical webrsync data if they are available somewhere |
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which would mean that the tests could be done rather quickly... |
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