On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Hamish Robertson wrote: > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:40:20 +0100 > From: Hamish Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alex Pedenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Robertson Technologies Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > rsync@lists.samba.org > Subject: RE: Can rsync handle any type of file? > > In technical terms, is rsync capable of dealing with backing up any type of > file then? In practical terms, has anyone had any corruption problems when > backing up files? > > Thanks > Hamish > I had an incident where rsync reliably was giving me corrupted file. (it was, as far as I remember, version 2.6.6). The problem was not file contents (it was just a zip file), but a very unstable network connection on which a smbfs Linux mount was used; rsync was used locally (no daemon, no remote rsync) and the result was that part of destination file was filled with binary zeroes. As far as I remember the parts with zeroes were at places where short read from Linux kernel were returned (i.e. number of bytes read was less than requested).
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