Does rsync detect file corruption?

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at theingots.org
Fri May 22 14:22:18 GMT 2009


Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> Exactly.
> 
> But you can (periodically) add "-c", then rsync while checksum the whole 
> content of all files.

Thanks. I'll add a -c for the Saturday backup.

> But IF you have (or suspect) such type of corrution, you have have an 
> even greater problem: Your hardware is crap.

Yeah. I hope I don't have that particular problem. But I want to be 
prepared if it happens.

Daniel.


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