> well, I would expect that only the differences in files would be
> transferred.

> Files can be identical (i.e. no differences) but have different names,
> can't they?

Well, no...  Not unless they're linked together as the same file.

Otherwise, what you have is two files with two different names, that
happen to have the same contents.

They'll be linked together in the pool after analysis, but there's no way
for rsync (or any of the other transfer protocols) to know that a file
with a completely different name happens to have the same contents as any
other file.

> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Michael Stowe
> <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>wrote:
>
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > has any one else noticed this behaviour?
>> > WinXP client running rsyncd being backed up to a Backuppc server.
>> >
>> > Renaming a file on the client causes the file to be retransferred,
>> even
>> > though that file is already in the pool.
>> >
>> > Thx for comments,
>> > Tom.
>>
>> Errr...  What did you expect?


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