rsync is bad

[Brian McKee]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 7:54 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
   Thousands of people have been rsync for many many years to copy
ungodly numbers of Terrabytes of data.
I don't doubt you are having a problem, but it ain't rsync.....
Please don't make blanket statements like that.
It's a poor musician....

Brian