Art Alexion on 28 Jul 2006 19:21:07 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Large data transfer


On Friday 28 July 2006 13:39, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:25:00PM -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > This is a one time thing.  Am I understand that the main advantage
> > of rsync over cp is in subsequent incremental backups?  --
>
> No, it also does a checksum.  You can get around this by computing
> yourself a good checksum (e.g., sha1) of each file and diffing the
> checksums.
>
>     $ find . -exec sha1sum \{\} \; > /tmp/sha-1.txt
>     $ # Then do same on other machine or other dir,
>     $ # and copy file of checksums to /tmp/sha-2.txt
>     $ diff /tmp/sha-[12].txt

No reason I didn't want to use rsync (other than never having used it before).  
Seems easier for me just to read rsync --help and learn how to use it rather 
than do the checksums manually.
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