performance of rsync

Carniado Rodríguez Claudia
Fri, 08 Aug 2003 06:06:46 -0000

My name is Claudia Carniado.



I have a question about rsync, which is new for me. Hope you can help me:



I have copied a binary file whose size is about 100 MB using rsync and I noticed
that it takes a lot of time.

The same size with a text file wasted really much less time.



That binary file is incremental, i.e. it started with a size of 2 kb and then it
grew.



But now I am confused with the following:

Is the performance of rsync better with no-incremental files?

Is the performance of rsync better with text files?

Is it the best tool for binary-incremental files? And if it is, which parameters
do I have to use on rsync?



Thanks in advance for your kindly help.

My e-mail is ccarniad@banxico.org.mx .