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
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