Liam, et al -- ...and then Liam Proven said... % On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 12:50, David Thorburn-Gundlach % <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org> wrote: % % > I don't know too many use cases for using rsync % > to transfer files around(*) on local disk % % Just for what it's worth, this is one of those lines in an email where % my eyes went wide and my eyebrows shot up. In British English usage, I % boggled briefly. Sorry about that :-) % ... % I use it for copying stuff onto external drives for backups. Snipped out below were lots of across-filesystem activities that can't be "move" but must instead be "copy-and-delete". I certainly can see rsync for those since it validates the copy before deleting the source, but I personally tend to use tar when I want to move stuff in bulk and don't need ssh in the mix. % % I use it for copying files from an account I'm about to delete into % another account, and for keeping stuff synched across different user Aha! That's a very good point, and it hadn't even occurred to me. That would be a case where I'd have to ssh into one account or the other or drag out root (whether to copy-and-delete or mv-and-chown), and rsync shines there. I just don't ever use any other accounts ;-) % accounts. I use it for getting stuff back off backup disks. I use it Continuous syncing is a yes, absolutely. ... % % The big win for rsync is that if something is missing or can't be read % or something, it keeps going. You can take stuff from 2 dissimilar I can definitely give it that, although when I run into a problem I want to stop right there and know about it. It's great for restarting after a failure, though; while not my most common use case, I'll go to it for that. ... % % This has been one of those surprising moments when you find that your % primary use for a tool is one that hasn't even occurred to someone % else as being a use case at all. And thanks for the reminder, since after excluding all of the ones that don't count as "move" there was still a good reminder for me. When I start finding myself shuffling between accounts, I'll think of you and this thread! % % -- % Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt