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2014 Mar 11
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silent data corruption with rsync
Hi everbody!
I'm currently working in a project which has to copy huge amounts of data from one storage to another. For a reason I cannot validate any longer, there is a roumor that "rsync may silently corrupt data". Personally, I don't believe that.
"They" explain it this way: "rsync does an in-stream data deduplication. It creates a checksum for each data block to transfer, and if a block with the same checksum has already been transferred...