In message <560cca51.5cwvptqce1nflu+u%per...@pluto.rain.com>, per...@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison) wrote:
>Just because rsync is an awesome hammer, it does not necessarily follow >that every problem involving backups closely resembles a nail :) An excellent and very apropos point. >Since your source and backup are both local, I suspect using rsync as >a comparison tool is overkill. (It may even be overkill for making >the backups in the first place.) In theory, I might be able to use cpio -p rather than rsync to make my backups, however for some reason that I can't remember anymore, when I originally set up my system for making backups, I looked at that possibility and concluded that rsync was preferable to cpio -p. I wish that I could remember why. (It might have had to do with better or more complete handling of ``weird stuff'' like extended file attributes, ACLs, device nodes, or other such oddities) >Had you considered "diff -q -r"? No, actually. thanks for the suggestion! >(I'm using gnu diff; other variants might have different command options.) The diff I have here on FreeBSD (9.1) seem to be GNU, so this will work. Regards, rfg -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
