[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

David McMillan skyefire at skyefire.org
Tue Sep 29 16:20:06 EDT 2009


Dan Pritts wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:26:29PM -0400, David McMillan wrote:
>> 	Does rsync have a history of messing up image files?  I *know* that 
> 
> No.
> 
> The only significant bugs i'm aware of with rsync have to do with
> resource forks on macs.  standard rsync didn't support them (may or may
> not support them now) and apparently apple's patches were flakey.
> I do not remember the details.
> 
> 
> Sorry you've lost so much data.  This is a fine time for the rest
> of us to meditate on the value of testing our backups.

	I am proud to serve as your metaphorical crash-test dummy, mon Capitaine!

	(now, if you'll excuse me, I have *got* to finish learning how to set 
up software RAID....)






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