Is it one huge compressed image or is it rather small bits that contribute?<br>I think rsync can tell the difference between between lots of folders and files but if it's on big file like vmdk or something you might have issues.<br>
I'm by no means an expert so don't believe everything (s/everything/anything) I say ;)<br><br>~Eben<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jason Irwin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jasonirwin73@gmail.com">jasonirwin73@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Something has just come up at work and (as per usual) the architects have left it to the last second before asking for stuff.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I need to transfer an zipped 11gb VM image from the USA over the corporate VPN by tomorrow AM. Nice.</p><p class="MsoNormal">As luck has it, this VM image is based on the same baseline as another one that got transferred a few days ago. Also zipped.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">If I copy that first image locally, set the name correctly and then ask my USA colleague to begin the transfer from his end; will rsync be smart enough to spot that large chunks of the 11gb are the same? Or does it not do sub-file?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Or, more likely, will having the VM image zipped up have buggered any chance of a comparison?</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">I am delving into the man page and Google, but suffer from forest/trees and needle/haystack.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers,</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal">J.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></font></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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