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An open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It also has useful features for backup and restore operations among many other use cases.

52 mentions on Hacker News by 47 people: 3 stories, 49 comments · first 2022-07-02 · latest 2026-10-19

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  1. …in v3.2.5pre1 12 hours ago[1] It's always conforming to see such a fast response time :) [0] - https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/commit/b7231c7d02cfb65d291af... [1] - https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/releases/tag/v3.2.5pre1
  2. …For older protocols, the checksum used is MD4. Newer versions (≥3.2?) support xxHash and xxHash3: * https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/blob/master/checksum.c * https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19402602…
    comment by throw0101a · 2022-07-02 · in How does rsync work?