https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6307
cool...@gmail.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |cool...@gmail.com ------- Comment #1 from cool...@gmail.com 2010-02-20 20:34 CST ------- A big _me too_ on this one. "Gee, my main storage space is nearly full, I need to move it off to another disk immediately... It's kinda important so I don't want to use mv and just hope everything goes okay... You know, if I use rsync, I'll get file checksuming, and some stats. Perfectly. Let me just wrap-off a quick cmd-line before we run out of space. Perfect! Hmm, where'd they go? Dammit! 200 GBytes of 'didn't have a chance to back it up yet' data GONE. Thanks rsync!" While I recognize my mistake in all of this, and while important and irreplaceable, the data wasn't critical, but I remain in a mild furor over pretty much the one and only possible way this could go wrong, not being checked for, despite how trivial doing so would be... This is just a complete lack of design fore-thought on a critical-data tool. Combine this with the terrible performance I'm seeing on filesystems with large numbers of files/folders, and my days of promoting rsync are over. I guess it's time I really check out Unison... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- 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