[non topological heads]

[Bryan Murdock]

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan Murdock <bmurdock at gmail.com> writes:
>
>    > On Jun 1, 2017 4:57 AM, "Uwe Brauer" <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
>    >  I swore I will never use rsync for repos again
>
>
>    > I use rsync -a to copy repos all the time. It works fine. Maybe you
>    > didn't use -a? Or maybe you copied from a Unix filesystem to fat32
>    > on the USB stick and that lost information (I don't think I've done
>    > that in all my rsyncing)?
>
>
> I use  -aui
>
> the laptop has a jfs and the stick a ext2 system. I hope this is not the
> reason?

-u?  Are you rsyncing to create a new copy, making changes in the
original, and then rsyncing again?  If so you also need --delete.  Of
course --delete is dangerous if you have made any changes in the
destination.  rsync is a very sharp tool.

Bryan