Hi,
Is there either a step, or a recipe for a step between
--dry-run and actually running?
In a particular instance, --dry-run isn't enough. I want
to actually attempt to read the entire file in, but then write
it out to nowhere. I'm trying to see if it generates any disk
errors that may hurt during an actual transfer. I realize 2
minutes later I could do the read again for the real transfer
and it would fail, but I'm hoping there is an incredibly slim
chance thats the case.
The reason I want to do this is that I'm trying to
capture if/when there are read errors on the sending disk.
I've ended up with corrupt files and didn't know until it
was too late. (NOTE: This last happened to me in 2003 with
"rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26" . My concerns
may be totally unfounded since then, and if so I'm sorry
but please let me know. I've used rsync pretty much weekly
since then, and haven't run into the problem, but then again
I haven't had a disk fail that I didn't know prior)
Thanks, Tuc
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