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I thought rsync, would calculate checksums of large files that have changed timestamps or filesizes, and send only the chunks which changed. Is this not correct? My goal is to come up with a reasonable (fast and efficient) way for me to daily incrementally backup my Parallels virtual machine (a directory structure containing mostly small files, and one 20G file) I?m on OSX 10.5, using rsync

I?ve posted a query regarding the visibility of snapshots via CIFS here (http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=130577&tstart=0) however, I?m beginning to suspect that it may be a more fundamental ZFS question so I?m asking the same question here. At what level does the ?zfs? directory exist? If the ?.zfs? subdirectory only exists as the direct child of the mount point then can