rsync

“would behave differently for 'rsync a b' vs 'rsync a/ b/', even though I added the slash for both sides.”

“go and look at how the good people and claude over at rsync are fixing all their bad security bugs currently”

“Using old standardized open source tools means it survives system updates without having to fix anything for years.”

“Sure, I _can_ make rsync do any number of rarely-used optimizations, if I feel like studying the manpage for half an hour”

“rsync speeds this up significantly since most (but not all) of the ISO is unchanged.”

“rsync however, is totally worth it if there is any chance the transfer gets interrupted”

“recent rsync versions (3.2.3 2020-08-06) can do it with the extra option --crtimes”

“The peace of mind that it'd do the right thing and not needing to research flags are more than worth any speed tradeoffs.”

“rsync is better if you are technical enough to use it to restore after destructive changes”

“rsync is one of the few utilities that preserve all metadata even when copying between distinct file systems”

“The Ubuntu backport did include regressions that an Ubuntu update a couple of days later addresses”

“Rsync should rightly loose reputation if the project allows the release breaking changes to follow the latest hype trend”

“Rsync is a high reputation software trusted by many people to move important data”

“the ability to dynamically skip compressing media and zipped files for transfer can be extremely handy”

“a test suite that makes the rsync development better, more rigorous and copes with the onslaught of both good and bad AI generated PRs”

“I trust rsync (which handles critical data on my system) because I know a veteran of 40 years wrote the code it runs”

“rsync is a gift to the world and we should be grateful and mindful of how much it has been quietly woven into the fabric of computing”

“I would expect a 10x change rate, even carried out by clones of the existing maintainers to result in more bugs.”

“my systems recently updated to rsync 3.4.3, and as soon as that happened my backup system started to fail on anything but a full backup”

“Tridge wrote a fine piece of software, and he knows how to write serious software”

“All claims I have seen so far of people being affected by bugs seem deeply implausible.”

“The outcome is exactly the same as if I had run "scp /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services"”

“this is exactly how it was used for rsync which caused the outrage you're all complaining about”

“The real issue is the irresponsible use of buggy machine-generated code in a project that many people depend on.”

“There's plenty of evidence that rsync 3.4.3 has broken a bunch of features like incremental copies, yes.”

“You have a rock solid piece of software used by an infinite amount of people and other services. It works fine, does it's job”

“I was hoping that at least some solid bedrock of stadalone command-line tools would withstand the deluge of AI slop.”

“an ancient command line application with a zillion flags on it is just about as user hostile as you can get”

“I run rsync -a --exclude='.ssh' --dry-run ./ user@host:~/target to verify before I commit the changes”

“something about the trailing slash will cause the command to behave differently the second time”

“rsync will likely be faster if some files are already in the destination as it handles that intelligently”

“Rsync is great. However for huge filesystems (many files and directories) with relatively less change”

“I prefer rsync because of its delta transfer which doesn't resend files already on the destination, saving bandwidth.”

“I have rsync at hand, which can compute checksums, delete files after the transfer, etc.”

“my primary line of defense is rsync to a server running ZFS with hourly snapshots”

“I eventually just wrote an incremental backup script in rsync. I'm much happier.”

“it was kind of amazing to watch rsync perform this job both automatically and without complaint”

“Besides being faster, with rsync and the right command options you can be certain that it makes exact file copies, together with any file metadata”

“rsync is the closest thing to a real successor, but no Web browser support that either.”

“rsync, ftp, and smb have all existed for decades and work very well on spotty, slow connections”