rsync is bad

[Bart Silverstrim]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> 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.

Did you say you're using DD on a live system to duplicate itself??

Did you Google to see how others are using rsync for backups?

http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups.html
http://tecnicambalandia.blogspot.com/2008/04/dd-and-rsync-in-linux.html
http://www.wyae.de/docs/img_rsync/

Along with many others...