rights messed up after moving installation

[lee]

Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:

> Am 07.11.2012 00:16, schrieb lee:
>> Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> writes:
>>> oversimplyfied:
>>> * on both sides a rsync-process is running
>>> * both are making a checksum of the same data-area
>>> * let's say 250 blocks
>>> * only this cheksum is transmitted and decides transmit data itself
>>> * attributes are also listed on both sides and compared
>> 
>> I thought it works like this, which involves reading all the files on
>> both sides.  For the purpose of copying files from one place to another
>> on the same machine, I'm wondering if it might be more efficient to go
>> by file modification times and file size 
>
> it does usually!
>
> you can force --checksum as param
> -c, --checksum  skip based on checksum, not mod-time & size
>
> but that does not change the fact that it syncs attributes too
> without --checksum, i am using --checksum once per month to
> make sure all is 100% consistent

Hm that is a good idea, I will do that from time to time.

> finally: a swiss knife for dealing with file transfers

... which is sometimes a little difficult to handle when one doesn't
read the manpage ;)


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