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Folks:<br><br><div>I really appreciate the rsync/backup conversation that has developed here! I appreciate everyone who mentioned the venerable tar, but I decided to try rsync.</div><div><br></div><div>As I mentioned doing an rsync on a MacOS 10.5.6 system from an NFS mounted disk to an external firewire drive produced copious (and that word is an understatement!) "file vanished" errors. I actually did the rsync again thinking that it would pick up the files it had not on the first pass that it thought were "vanished" but that was not the case.</div><div><br></div><div>Thinking this could be something to do with my web disk structure I rsynced another computer that I needed to back up and got the same behavior - at least 40% of the files were declared vanished. The only consistent behavior in this is that once files started to be declared vanished, it was that way to the end of the process.</div><div><br></div><div>So, it didn't seem to be something inherent in the disk structure since I saw the behavior on two different computers. The next step was to take NFS out of the equation and do an end-to-end copy (as was suggested by a few people). This, of course, meant setting up an Rsync Server, which I managed. I did a test backup last night and it actually looks good. No "file vanishings" and the space comparison looks good as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe that's it! However, I'll still be interested in the conversation because I remember at least one person mentioning, "Oh, look, I'm getting 'file vanishings,' too. I wonder why that is?'"</div><div><br></div><div>By the way, we need to have a meeting. I'd like to meet/thank you all. :-)<br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div>---</div><div>Richard 'Doc' Kinne, [KQR]</div><div>American Association of Variable Star Observers</div><div><rkinne @ aavso.org></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>