Christof Hanke <christof.ha...@mpcdf.mpg.de> added the comment: Hi Andrei,
I would follow rsync. >From the man page: """ [...] -c, --checksum This changes the way rsync checks if the files have been changed and are in need of a transfer. Without this option, rsync uses a "quick check" that (by default) checks if each file’s size and time of last modification match between the sender and receiver. [...] """ so, yes you can have false positives with a shallow comparison of size + mtime only. But that's usually ok for e.g. incremental backups. Wow, the bug is that old... ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue42958> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com