On Mon 14 Nov 2022, Wes Render via rsync wrote:
> Hello, I'm running an rsync like this:
>
> rsync -avSHP --delete-after
> --log-file=/opt/mirrorsync/centos_mirror/rsync-1.log
> --exclude-from=/opt/mirrorsync/centos_mirror/excludelist.txt
> rsync://centos.mirror.rafal.ca/CentOS/ /data/centos
>
Short answer: Don't use --append[-verify]
If you aren't syncing files that aren't tagged with 'chattr +a' you
don't want --append. --append-verify is essentially "I think --append
is a good idea to use on general files but rsync keeps corrupting
stuff!" but it still allows files to be out of sync
