Hi,
you can use the switch --fsync to verify the transfer. From the manpage:
--fsync
Cause the receiving side to fsync each finished file.
This may slow down the transfer, but can help to
provide peace of mind when updating critical files.
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Hi,
I've read through the rsync manpage, this mailing list, asked Google and
studied lots of posts on stackexchange.com (stackoverflow,
superuser...), askubuntu.com and some others, concerning rsync's
capabilities of showing progress information. But all I've found was
what I already knew:
That's not the same as a read-back write verification.
I believe that in general, rsync assumes that the disk actually
wrote whatever it was told to write.
However, a second pass with --checksum will, in fact, read the
entirety of both files; if a --checksum run doesn't actually
transfer
Robin is right.
Read back verification has lost its meaning since old days when we used
extremely unreliable media or transports. Who writes to floppies anymore? In
those old days you could/should use any copy program with a -v verify flag. But
read-back wore down your floppy faster, so in
