What's best and easiest to check sync result ?

[Thilo Six]

Bart Silverstrim wrote the following on 10.06.2008 16:33

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> But when I did it to copy files as backups from my hard disk to an 
> external drive, it would copy the whole file; so if I have a 5 gig 
> tarfile, it copies the 5 gig over.

Just in case this backup is gzip'ed. For gzip there is this option:

$ man gzip | less -p "--rsyncable"

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