Re: Does rsync detect file corruption?

2009-05-27 Thread Christian Hecht
Thank you Wayne for pointing me to these patches. I've never noticed them before. Am 24.05.2009 um 23:53 schrieb Wayne Davison: On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:32:40PM +0200, Christian Hecht wrote: Such a tool i plan to write for Mac OS X. The first time it should store checksums and mod

Re: Does rsync detect file corruption?

2009-05-24 Thread Christian Hecht
Am 24.05.2009 um 18:01 schrieb Daniel Carrera: Jamie Lokier wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: But there is no way to distinguish between file corruption and a legitimate change. All you can do is keep old backups for a few days or weeks and hope that you detect the file corruption before the b

Re: Does rsync detect file corruption?

2009-05-24 Thread Christian Hecht
w place. Best regards, Vitorio Le 24 mai 09 à 15:05, Christian Hecht a écrit : This will safe you if your file is corrupted on the backup side. Rsync will copy it then again from the source because the checksum is different and everything is okay. But imagine the file is corrupted on the so

Re: Does rsync detect file corruption?

2009-05-24 Thread Christian Hecht
This will safe you if your file is corrupted on the backup side. Rsync will copy it then again from the source because the checksum is different and everything is okay. But imagine the file is corrupted on the source side. Then rsync will copy the corrupted file again and if you delete olde

Protocol of checksums generated with -c option?

2009-03-21 Thread Christian Hecht
Hello, i am trying to implement a new feature for my rsync GUI RecPointX under Mac OS X. I want to store MD5 hashes for each source file. Later on i want to proof if the source files are damaged. So, for source files which are unchanged since last run, i want to create the hash again a

Using atimes patch with Mac OS X

2008-10-07 Thread Christian Hecht
Hello, i am using rsync with Mac OS X 10.5. Now i have downloaded the sources and patches for 3.0.4. and sucessfully applied the fileflags.diff and crtimes.diff patches. After reading in this mailing list i found there is also a patch to preserve the last access time: atimes.diff I wante