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Funny option "--inplace" of "#rsync(1)" is …

"The file's data will be in an inconsistent state during the and will be left that way if the transfer is interrupted or if an update fails.
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This option is useful for transferring large files with block- based changes or appended data, and also on systems that are disk bound, not network bound. It can also help keep a copy-on-write filesystem snapshot from diverging the entire contents of a file that only has minor changes."

Fast XOR Coherent.

Mar 18 at 11:06amWeb
Show threaddch  6d ago
@ax6761 I use this 100% of the time for sync and backup
Show threadax67616d ago
@dch I personally do not want to do the clean up or restoration of the old state due to incomplete transfer!
Show threaddch  6d ago
@ax6761 it makes restarting from a partial failure during sync very fast, and in my case a revert is a trivial zfs rollback, only needed if running ‘rsync —inplace -Phrivazcld src/ dest/‘ never completes successfully.