rsync: [sender] read errors mapping "file" : Input/output error (5)

[Hardy]

On 24.12.24 09:53, Mario Marietto via rsync wrote:
> There are times when a large file is copied up to 99% and then deleted after having received the error. Other times when the error occurs earlier and only a part of it is copied. Does it make sense to calculate the checksum if in both cases in output I don't have the same information that there is in input ? Because in the first case it is totally deleted and in the second case I have only a small part of it.

No, you use chksum only to verify for exact same content. Use it in the windows case to verify the copy worked without error, and we not just believe it, when rsync and windows don't tell us about errors.

In the other cases we already know checksums will fail, the files cannot be the same.