Hello!
Opinions, please.
I use rsync to copy my primary backup drive to a secondary backup drive
, so that the secondary backup drive is theoretically always an exact
copy of the primary backup drive.
Here is the rsync command I use:
time sudo rsync -aAXHxvv --delete-after --numeric-ids --
info=progress2,stats2,name2 --
exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media
/*","/lost+found"} /media/default/MSD0001/ /media/default/MSD0002/
Question:
I use rsync --delete-after because it might seem to be "safer", so in
case of a "glitch" of any kind, no file ever disappears from both the
source drive and the destination drive.
However, I have read that using rsync --delete instead of rsync --
delete-after is faster and uses less memory, and so is more efficient.
Note: The current copy process time varies, but takes a long time -
last night 131 minutes.
:(
Disk space used is not currently an issue.
But, is rsync --delete AS SAFE as rsync --delete-after?
