[Gllug] Verifying rsync copy

[John Hearns]

2009/5/13 Jon Dye <jon at pecorous.co.uk>:
> Hi all,
>
> I use rsync to copy a directory of files to a remote location from a
> cron job once a day.  Currently I give it the --verbose option so in
> my email from cron I can see that it's actually worked (normally it's
> silent).  I'd rather just have my cron email tell me if it transfered
> anything and/or that the remote and local directories have the same
> contents.

ps. I'm doing some big rsyncs this morning - several gbytes of data at a time.
I'll try a final check by running with -n --checksum and looking at
the exit status.
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