rsync is bad

[Paul Johnson]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>    I hoped that rsync would result in a copy of the original but fails
> to do so. It seems to do something to GTK+ which no-one including me,
> has the first clue how to fix. I have had no luck with rsync so will
> stop using it.
>
>    So I will back off to dd which I know works just fine. That will be
> my next way to copy this Ubuntu 7.10 to another partition. Forget rsync
> it has bad problems.
>
>
> Karl
>
> --

rsync always works flawlessly for me.  You do

rsync -e ssh -rav   /home/fred/whatever   192.167.0.1:

it will copy "whatever" exactly from one directory to the account you
have on the other PC.

I have done it to copy whole file systems.  I'd never use it to copy
the /proc /var or /dev trees.  But for files, it is great.

pj

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Paul E. Johnson
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