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I would have used something like this when I was first learning rsync... Even though I had read all of the man pages and knew the commands inside and out, it s

I would have used something like this when I was first learning rsync... Even though I had read all of the man pages and knew the commands inside and out, it still seemed incredibly risky and scary to me to run rsync with the --delete function when I was backing up my main USB drive for the very first time. Basically my biggest fear was that I had source and destination mixed up, which I didn't, but it would have been nice to run a test trial of that command before doing so.

P4bTXfOZAZicOOw 11y ago
From man rsync: -n, --dry-run perform a trial run with no changes made This probably also would have helped
bentaber 11y ago
Wouldn't the rsync --dry-run flag be helpful in that scenario?
SixSigma 11y ago
did cp not work on your system ?
- cyphar 11y ago
  rsync has integrity checking and is better in quite a few ways.
  - SixSigma 11y ago
    i meant to backup up before running rsync