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When mirroring a directory containing versioned files with rsync, it seems that extra data is being transferred unnecessarily when a new version of the file is put in the directory. For instance, a directory contains files: someprog-3.7-beta1.ext otherprog-9.2.ext ... and this is mirrored to another system with rsync. Then the site updates someprog-3.7-beta1.ext to someprog-3.7-beta2.ext (or other similar name) and deletes the someprog-3.7-beta1.ext . If you are rsyncing with the --delete option, the old file will be scheduled to be delete...