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

[Jim Jackson]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, John Hodrien wrote:

...snip...
> A tip for whenever you're doing stuff like this however familiar you are with
> it and however confident you are you've not made a mistake:
> 
> --dry-run
> 
> Let it show you what it's thinking of doing before actually doing it.

Strongly endorse that! Saved me several times.
I've used a mixture of rsync and unison for different stuations, in 
an automated "backup"/"sync" regime for many years. Not come across an 
rsync bug yet.

The big problem with both is that one gets lost in a twisty maze of 
complicated options which aren't always terribly well explained. Option 
misuse can often look like a bug, in so far as it doesn't do what you 
expected :-)

Nobody seems to have offered up alternatives, apart from the brute force 
methods.
 
> I've never been entirely happy with any of the tools I've used for
> cross-platform two-way (if not n-way) file syncing (for one way rsync is
> great).  Unison has just proved far too slow for syncing disk -> usb so that
> got the boot (but was otherwise rather good).  SyncToy under windows is
> wonderfully fast, but not cross platform, and I've managed to find situations
> where it seems to decide the fastest way to sync is to not really bother doing
> it properly.
> 
> What does anybody else use?
> 
> jh
> 
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