rsync is bad

[Karl Larsen]

Brian McKee wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    It failed for me.

Karl


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