ndawson@chamonix:~$ sudo rsync -vzrt --partial --partial-dir=.rsync-tmp --delay-updates --progress /Users/ndawson/testtar.tar /local/lynchburg/ndawson/
building file list ... 
1 file to consider
testtar.tar
     3368960 100%    1.73MB/s    0:00:01 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

sent 1534975 bytes  received 42 bytes  614006.80 bytes/sec
total size is 3368960  speedup is 2.19


ndawson@chamonix:~$ tar -Avf testtar.tar test1


ndawson@chamonix:~$ sudo rsync -vzrt --partial --partial-dir=.rsync-tmp --delay-updates --progress /Users/ndawson/testtar.tar /local/lynchburg/ndawson/
building file list ... 
1 file to consider
testtar.tar
     3368960 100%    1.79MB/s    0:00:01 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1)

sent 1534975 bytes  received 42 bytes  614006.80 bytes/sec
total size is 3368960  speedup is 2.19
ndawson@chamonix:~$