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by stavros 884 days ago
Sure, but rsync requires the server to support rsync.
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pdimitar 884 days ago
Does rclone require rsync? Haven't checked.
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stavros 884 days ago
Oh sorry, brain fart, I thought you said rsync. I think rclone uploads everything if you don't have rclone on the server, but I'm not sure.
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pdimitar 884 days ago
Pretty sure rclone uploads just fine without server dependencies, yeah. I never installed anything special on my home NAS and it happily accepts uploads with rclone.
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stavros 884 days ago
It will upload fine, but it can't upload only the changed parts of the file without server support.
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pdimitar 884 days ago
That I can't really speak of. I know it does not reupload the same files at least (uses timestamps) but never really checked about only uploading file diffs.

Do you have a direct link I can look at?

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stavros 884 days ago
Nothing offhand, but basically it can't know what's on the server without reading it all, and if it can't do that locally, it'll have to do it remotely. At that point, might as well re-upload the whole thing.

Its front page hints at this, but there must be details somewhere.

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formerly_proven 883 days ago
For the "replicating borg repos" use case this doesn't matter, because files are only written once and never modified afterwards.
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