On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 07:54 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > I wonder if there was a false checksum > match in the file? In such a case, the sender and the receiver would > compress different "matching" data, and could potentially get out of > sync.
That would explain it. > If so, I doubt there's a fix other than > to not allow rsync to include matched (unsent) data in the compression > stream. That would lose a major advantage of the -z option. Would it work to just abort the file transfer with the "ERROR: file failed verification" message when compression is found to be out of sync? Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html