rsync is bad

[Karl Larsen]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    Glad to hear. It doesn't work for me. I am trying to move the entire 
system. That does not work.

Karl


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