On Fri, 05 May 2017, John Conover wrote: > Also be advised if "dest/" is a FAT formatted SD card, there is a file > size limit of 4GB, (and the -aAXv argument to rsync(1) may not be > viable to restore the permission/ACL of files/directories.)
Using rsync on non-POSIX filesystems is a Bad Idea, it is going to mangle a lot of metadata. > If "dest/" is archival, (i.e., must be recoverable for a long period > of time,) saving the MD5/SHA* hash values of files in "source/" is > advisable for verification that a file is not corrupt sometime in the > future. In that case, using tar+lzip (*not* xz) and adding par2 ECC blocks might be in order. Refer to the lzip/plzip and par2 packages. -- Henrique Holschuh
