# copia
**Pure Rust rsync-style file synchronization - up to 800x faster than rsync**
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```
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║ COPIA vs RSYNC BENCHMARK RESULTS ║
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║ Pure Rust implementation beats C-based rsync across ALL file sizes ║
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┌────────────────────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬──────────────────┐
│ Scenario │ rsync (ms) │ copia (ms) │ Speedup │
├────────────────────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────────────────┤
│ 1KB identical │ 43.39 │ 0.05 │ ⚡ 792x faster │
│ 1KB modified │ 43.39 │ 0.12 │ ⚡ 353x faster │
│ 100KB identical │ 41.81 │ 0.16 │ ⚡ 258x faster │
│ 100KB modified │ 43.48 │ 1.05 │ ⚡ 41x faster │
│ 1MB identical │ 43.40 │ 0.50 │ ⚡ 86x faster │
│ 1MB modified │ 43.32 │ 4.54 │ ⚡ 9x faster │
│ 10MB identical │ 55.75 │ 3.21 │ ⚡ 17x faster │
│ 10MB modified │ 43.62 │ 40.74 │ ✓ 1.1x faster│
│ 10MB completely different │ 43.51 │ 41.83 │ ✓ 1.0x parity│
└────────────────────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴──────────────────┘
★ Overall: copia is 4.3x FASTER than rsync ★
```
## Features
- **Blazing Fast**: Up to 800x faster than rsync for small files, parity or better for all sizes
- **Pure Rust**: 100% safe Rust, no unsafe code, fully auditable
- **Zero Dependencies on C**: No OpenSSL, no librsync, no external binaries
- **Async Support**: First-class tokio integration for non-blocking I/O
- **Delta Compression**: rsync-style rolling checksum algorithm for bandwidth-efficient transfers
- **Cryptographic Verification**: BLAKE3 checksums for data integrity
- **Parallel Processing**: Multi-core signature generation with rayon
## Installation
Add to your `Cargo.toml`:
```toml
[dependencies]
copia = "0.1"
```
For async support:
```toml
[dependencies]
copia = { version = "0.1", features = ["async"] }
```
### CLI Installation
```bash
cargo install copia --features cli
```
## Quick Start
### Library Usage
```rust
use copia::{CopiaSync, Sync};
use std::io::Cursor;
// Create sync engine
let sync = CopiaSync::with_block_size(2048);
// Generate signature from basis (old) file
let basis = b"original file content here";
let signature = sync.signature(Cursor::new(basis.as_slice()))?;
// Compute delta from source (new) file
let source = b"modified file content here";
let delta = sync.delta(Cursor::new(source.as_slice()), &signature)?;
// Apply delta to reconstruct the new file
let mut output = Vec::new();
sync.patch(Cursor::new(basis.as_slice()), &delta, &mut output)?;
assert_eq!(output, source);
```
### Async Usage
```rust
use copia::async_sync::AsyncCopiaSync;
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
let sync = AsyncCopiaSync::with_block_size(2048);
// Sync source file to destination
let result = sync.sync_files("source.txt", "dest.txt").await?;
println!("Matched: {} bytes", result.bytes_matched);
println!("Literal: {} bytes", result.bytes_literal);
println!("Compression: {:.1}%", result.compression_ratio() * 100.0);
Ok(())
}
```
### CLI Usage
```bash
# Sync a file
copia sync source.txt dest.txt
# Generate signature
copia signature file.txt -o file.sig
# Compute delta
copia delta newfile.txt file.sig -o file.delta
# Apply patch
copia patch oldfile.txt file.delta -o newfile.txt
```
## How It Works
Copia implements the rsync delta-transfer algorithm:
1. **Signature Generation**: The basis file is divided into fixed-size blocks. For each block, a rolling checksum (Adler-32 variant) and strong hash (BLAKE3) are computed.
2. **Delta Computation**: The source file is scanned with a sliding window. When the rolling checksum matches a known block, the strong hash verifies the match. Matching blocks become "copy" operations; non-matching data becomes "literal" operations.
3. **Patch Application**: The delta is applied to the basis file, copying matched blocks and inserting literal data to reconstruct the source.
```
┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐ ┌─────────────┐
│ Basis File │────▶│ Signature │ │ Source File │
└─────────────┘ └──────┬──────┘ └──────┬──────┘
│ │
▼ ▼
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ Delta Computation │
└────────────┬─────────────┘
│
▼
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ Delta: [Copy, Literal..] │
└────────────┬─────────────┘
│
┌─────────────┐ │
│ Basis File │────────┤
└─────────────┘ ▼
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ Patch Application │
└────────────┬─────────────┘
│
▼
┌──────────────────────────┐
│ Reconstructed Source │
└──────────────────────────┘
```
## Performance Optimizations
Copia achieves its performance through several key optimizations:
| **FastRollingChecksum** | Lazy modulo operations reduce per-byte overhead by 3x |
| **FxHashMap** | 2x faster lookups for u32 weak hash keys |
| **Parallel Signatures** | Multi-core BLAKE3 hashing via rayon |
| **Identical Detection** | O(n) memcmp skips delta for unchanged files |
| **Weak Match Filter** | Skip strong hash when no weak match exists |
## API Reference
### Core Types
- `CopiaSync` - Main synchronization engine
- `Signature` - Block signatures for a file
- `Delta` - Difference between two files
- `RollingChecksum` - Adler-32 variant rolling checksum
- `StrongHash` - BLAKE3 cryptographic hash
### Async Types
- `AsyncCopiaSync` - Async synchronization engine
- `SyncResult` - Statistics from sync operation
## Feature Flags
| `async` | Enable tokio async support |
| `cli` | Build command-line interface |
| `simd` | SIMD acceleration via trueno (optional) |
| `gpu` | GPU acceleration via wgpu (optional) |
| `distributed` | Distributed execution via repartir (optional) |
| `compression` | Compression via trueno-zram (optional) |
## Benchmarks
Run benchmarks yourself:
```bash
# Compare against rsync
cargo bench --bench rsync_comparison --features async
# Run criterion benchmarks
cargo bench --bench benchmarks
```
## Comparison with rsync
| Language | Pure Rust | C |
| Memory Safety | Guaranteed | Manual |
| Async I/O | Native | No |
| Small Files | 800x faster | Baseline |
| Large Files | 1-17x faster | Baseline |
| Dependencies | Minimal | OpenSSL, zlib |
| Binary Size | ~2MB | ~1MB |
## License
MIT License - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.
## Contributing
Contributions welcome! Please read our contributing guidelines and submit PRs to the main branch.
## Acknowledgments
- rsync algorithm by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras
- BLAKE3 team for the fast cryptographic hash
- Rust community for excellent tooling