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...I'm told that this needs to be reported upstream. As far as I can understand, one use of --append-verify is that in case of interruption, rsync will leave the destination file in its partial state so that it can be resumed at a later point. Consider, for example: source volume: "/Volume/DyingHDD" destination volume: "/Volume/NewHDD" Suppose I have a 2 GB file "/Volume/DyingHDD/00027.MTS" and my DyingHDD is really dying: its read speed has degraded to around 5 MB/s and it's so unstable that it can't read 10 GB without suddenly going offline (OS X would think...