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Van: jdd@dodin.org
Datum: za 8 jan. 2022 13:32
Aan: users@lists.opensuse.org
Onderwerp: Re: how could this happen? accidental mass file deletion

Le 08/01/2022 à 12:30, Daniel Bauer a écrit :

> I cannot explain to my self what happened here. It's very strange and
> kind of frightening...

I had a similar problem once, with unison.

unison is aimed at mirroring disks through rsync.

I tried to mirror a data disk to an other new usb one.

fact was than this new one was defective. the file copied was accepted,
but empty (zero byte), but with a more recent date than the original, so
unison decided to copy back the zero size file to the original...

That way, I got two folders with empty files :-(

of course it's not exactly what happen to you, the files where not
removed, but same kind of unexpectable thing

jdd

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