On Fri, 2023-07-07 at 19:11 -0600, home user wrote: > What I back up is a mix of binary and text files. I understand that > "diff" is not the best for binary files, but "cmp" does not have a > recursive option. "rsync" does copying. I don't see how that > command (including with the "--dry-run" option) will verify the back- > up. 'rsync --dry-run' will tell you if it thinks some files need to be copied because they have changed. If you do this after your backup procedure, then you'll be checking that it worked correctly. You can of course *also* use rsync to do the actual backup (and IMHO it would be preferable to 'diff'), but that's not what I mean here. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
