On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:15:48 -0500 Rui DeSousa <rui.desousa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sure it does… what happens if the archive server gets full? There is > a situation that can fool rsync into thinking it was successfully > transferred as rsync only relies on filesystem metadata to verify the > file is different. That's incorrect. The original transfer will fail and rsync will remove the temporary file. It doesn't rename the file to the final destination until and unless the transfer is successful. "-c" is only used for files that might change multiple times per second; since most file systems have only 1-second granualarity in file timestamps, you can't rely on a file being identical if the size and timestamps are the same. > The “-c” option will validate the file using a checksum and not just > rely on just filesystem metadata. That's incorrect. "-c" applies only when rsync looks at existing files to see if they differ. It does not affect what happens when rsync actually copies the file data over; that's always verified with a checksum. Regards, Dianne.
