On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > Do you mean that it checks the files during transmission and that it is > impossible for it ever to fail? > It verifies checksums as part of its copy procedure. Sure, it's possible for it to fail mid-transfer, but you just issue the same rsync command again and it'll pick up where it left off. It's for this reason (restarting mid-copy) that I use rsync quite frequently, even when copying file structures around within a single system. > But how do you learn anything by doing it that way? ;-) > True. More seriously, I sometimes have important collections of files (for my > work) that I like to have the md5sums for. If a file is ever corrupted, > I'll be able to tell because I keep that md5sum file. > Sounds like you ought to become familiar with ZFS. :) It does all this (and much, much more) for you automatically and transparently. > With rsync, is it possible for the process to be killed so that not all of > the files are copied over? I still like the idea of confirming that the > files were correctly copied. > Again, as above, just restart the command... -Erik -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130509/2889423f/attachment-0001.html>