On 2024-01-17, Default User wrote: > By "glitch", I mean anything that could interfere with the rsync copy > process. Possible causes:
Whatever the cause you just have to get return code and restart rsync until it complete succesfully. Then you are sure to have an exact copy. To cope with errors in primary backup you must have multiple copies as suggest Michael. Personnally I use rsnapshot (a tool using rsync itself) for that.