[rdiff-backup-users] Re: Remote encrypted backup with slow connection.

[Piotr Karbowski]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Matthew Miller <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 01:58:11PM +0200, Piotr Karbowski wrote:
>> local rdiff-backup dir with remote server but how? If I will use for
>> example rsync it still need to check whole files for changes (read,
>> download it) and upload only new. I hope you will understand what I
>> need and help me.
>
> rsync won't check whole files unless you give the -c flag. Otherwise, it
> just compares metadata. I don't know if that's also the case with
> rdiff-backup, but I assume so.So

So I need to know how rdiff default compares data, if by size and
mod-time, it will not be so painful but still it will download changed
files to generate diff.