understood, there arent a lot of files currently, nothing has changed 
since day 1.

its only 400 mb.

if i have level 2, it does incremental in 10 seconds, why does that 
happen? level 1 takes 10 min

On 1/20/2012 8:19 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:15 AM, smallpox<smallpox AT gmail DOT com>  wrote:
>> i was under the impression that rsync does the comparison with little or
>> no bandwidth.
> It generally does not use a big percentage of the data, but the client
> sends the full directory tree data to the server where the comparison
> happens.   If you have millions of files, that's going to use some
> bandwidth even you are doing incrementals and the directory comparison
> shows that no timestamps have changed.  By contrast, for a tar
> incremental the server would send a timestamp and the client would
> only send newer files - but that misses deletions, new files that
> maintain old timestamps, the new location of old files under a renamed
> directory, etc., etc..
>

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