[Wylug-discuss] Delurk and how not to use rsyncApa

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Richard Ibbotson wrote:

> I suppose so.  I just prefer scp myself.  When I started to use Rsync
> I was in touch with Andrew Tridgell who had just written the software.
> There were lots of bugs.  Each new release produced other bugs.  So,
> as I say, I prefer scp.  Later versions of Rsync seem to be more
> reliable.  I used to use Rsync to do backups for local companies in
> Sheffield.  It did the job mostly.

Rsync was once buggy and they've at some point added bugs.  Now it's more
reliable than an incredibly buggy piece of software.  Faint praise indeed.

Finish off noting that you've used it but with an implication that it's still
in some way inadequate or buggy.

FUD

jh