A question about rsync

brk gnhlug at karas.net
Sun Jul 22 21:09:45 EDT 2007


I have a question for people who might be more intimately familiar  
with rsync than I am...

How does rsync "know" what files have been touched?

What would happen if by some twist of fate a handful of files were  
cleanly corrupted such that they would for all purposes appear to be  
deleted or non-existent on a machine that had an rsync process  
running to a remote backup machine?  Would those files be removed on  
the remote machine, or would they likely remain in place there?

Thanks to anyone who can assist.

--
Brian


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