rsync is bad

[Robert Holtzman]

>
> In case you weren't following, the rsync copy did work after he got the
> copies mounted correctly.   You are right that rsync can't deal with
> files that change while being copied, but the OS itself doesn't change
> when running and the logfiles, etc. that would change don't break
> anything if they aren't exactly the same in the copy.  Rsync wouldn't be
> a good choice to copy an active database, but it works fine for running
> programs.

I would suggest that the man pages are misleading. In reading them I got 
the impression that the program was designed to copy individual files and 
not an entire system.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
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  check the price of the beer"