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Re: backing up backups

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On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:13 PM David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 12:59, Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Then I try to use rsync to make an identical copy of backup device MSD1
> on an absolutely identical 4-Tb external usb hard drive,
> > labeled MSD2, using this command:
> >
> > sudo rsync -aAXHxvv --delete --info=progress2,stats2,name2
> /media/default/MSD1/ /media/default/MSD2
> >
> > Here's the problem.  Although the size and number of items in each
> subdirectory on MSD1 and MSD2 seem to be identical, more space in total
> seems to be taken up on MSD2 than on MSD1:
>
> I suggest to try adding option -S to rsync, and see if that makes
> any difference. It might only affect the creation of new files, I'm
> unsure about that aspect.
>




Hi David, thanks for the reply.

I really don't know anything about sparse blocks, but I will check it out
and give it a try.

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backing up backups Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2022-04-11 05:00 +0200
  Re: backing up backups David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2022-04-11 05:20 +0200
    Re: backing up backups Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2022-04-11 06:00 +0200
  Re: backing up backups David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-11 06:50 +0200
    Re: backing up backups <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-04-11 07:20 +0200
      Re: backing up backups David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-11 18:10 +0200
        Re: backing up backups Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2022-04-13 18:30 +0200
          Re: backing up backups David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-13 22:50 +0200
            Re: backing up backups Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2022-04-14 05:10 +0200
              Re: backing up backups David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-14 09:30 +0200
                Re: backing up backups Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2022-04-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: backing up backups David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2022-04-19 00:50 +0200
                Re: backing up backups David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-21 23:00 +0200
  Re: backing up backups Keith Bainbridge <keithrboz@gmail.com> - 2022-04-19 06:00 +0200
  Re: backing up backups David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-04-19 18:10 +0200

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