rsync - Aug 2003 - Syncronize large file

i have several large .tar backup file on the server
it's about 2 GB and 4 GB 

the question is, if i syncronize using rsync to other
computer, rsync will re-transfer the whole
1 big file, or only transfer part of the file ? 

or maybe i should reduce the size, by splitting the file
into 650 Mb each. 

or it's the same as if transfering via FTP ? 

thanks 


Luqman.H
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On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 03:12:27PM +0800, Luqman.H
wrote:
> i have several large .tar backup file on the server
> it's about 2 GB and 4 GB 
> 
> the question is, if i syncronize using rsync to other
> computer, rsync will re-transfer the whole
> 1 big file, or only transfer part of the file ? 
Only the parts that are changed.
> 
> or maybe i should reduce the size, by splitting the file
> into 650 Mb each. 
> 
> or it's the same as if transfering via FTP ? 
Is http://rsync.samba.org/features.html not sufficiently
clear?

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