big backup file-Solved
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Sat Jan 16 16:18:44 UTC 2010
2010/1/16 Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com>:
>...
> As I understand it rsync stores a file somewhere in the
> backup that tells it what it has, and so when you do the next
> backup it only adds new files. This might be quite big.
>
No it does not store anything extra anywhere. It does it by
mathematical magic. Google for rsync algorithm if you want to know
more.
Colin
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