Re: Verifying backups

In message <560c4a51.4040...@sanitarium.net>, Kevin Korb wrote: >First off, --fileflags --force-change are not in my man rsync so I >don't know what those are. These are probably (Free)BSD specific. Here's what the man page says: --fileflags preserve

Verifying backups

For some time now I've been using rsync on FreeBSD to make my system backups. Recently, I accidentally rm'd some files from one directory and I had to go and fetch copies off of my backup drive. After I had done so, I found that about 1/5 of them were corrupted. (They were all .jpg files, by

Re: Verifying backups

In message <560c7e98.3090...@sanitarium.net>, Kevin Korb wrote: >Remove the -n and look at the results. You would be copying the one >dir into the two dir instead of copying the contents of the one dir >into the two dir. AHHH! OK. Yes. My bad. I keep on

Re: Verifying backups

Kevin Korb , I thank you greatly for your attempts to educate me, however as we get deeper into discussing more and more different rsync options, I feel that I am actually just getting more confused and frustrated. I've been sitting here, trying all sorts of different

Re: Verifying backups

In message <560c660f.5000...@sanitarium.net>, Kevin Korb wrote: >Just add --itemize-changes and --checksum to what you were doing >before and know that it will take a long time. I'm still not getting to where I need to be. Maybe you can explain what has gone wrong in

Re: Verifying backups

In message <560c79ff.5010...@sanitarium.net>, Kevin Korb wrote: >Because you are making two/one. Change to: >rsync -n -v --itemize-changes -checksum -a one/ two/ OK, I tried it with your suggested command line, and yes, that produces rather more substantially useful

Re: Verifying backups

In message <560cca51.5cwvptqce1nflu+u%per...@pluto.rain.com>, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote: >Just because rsync is an awesome hammer, it does not necessarily follow >that every problem involving backups closely resembles a nail :) An excellent and very apropos point. >Since

Re: Verifying backups

In message <560ce706@sanitarium.net>, Kevin Korb wrote: >Yes, when it comes to local copies cp is significantly faster than >rsync. Without --link-dest there isn't much advantage to using rsync >for backups. The only thing you get beyond cp -au is --delete. I just