According to rsync's man page:
[Rsync] is famous for its delta-transfer algorithm, which reduces the amount of data sent over the network by sending only the differences between the source files and the existing files in the destination.
However, I noticed today that several video files that I had only changed the name of, were re-transferred in their entirety. This seems to contradict the above claim by rsync that it only updates the changes made. Have I made an error in my command that would cause a small text change to the title of a file to cause the re-tranfer of the entire file?
My command:
rsync -avz --delete -e ssh /files/tobe/transferrd [email protected]:/backup/location 1>>/logs/backup.log
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