Jeff writes:

> Are you sure that you can't get rsync to calculate the checksums (both
> block and full-file) before file transfer begins -- I don't know I'm
> just asking..

I believe rsync's --checksum option precomutes and sends the whole
file checksum (which as has been noted is different to BackupPC's
partial file checksum).

Currently File::RsyncP doesn't handle that option.  Also, it requires
two passes on each changed file on the client.

Craig

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