RSync to WebDAV mounted volume very slow

I have a mounted WebDAV store, which I am playing around with to try and put together my own pseudo-DropBox set up. However, it seems very slow to upload larger files (my bandwidth graph goes ok for a little bit, then just stops dead for long periods of time).

Has anyone tried this? I'm wondering if the way it gets mounted makes rsync think it's a local drive or something and so may be chattier than it would be if it knew it was a mounted network drive ?

I'm syncing using the following command:

rsync -rv /source/directory/ /mounted/webdav/directory/

This is running using MacOS 10.6, and WebDAV is mounted using the native mounting mechanism.

Solution 1:

Check the man page for

• --size-only because most webdav implementation do not accept setting modification time

• --no-whole-file to tell rsync its handling a remote filesystem

• --inplace having rsync replacing files directly, instead of uploading an then replacing

Btw, I am using another encfs layer to encrypt files on the webdav, and I am quite happy with the performance.