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I didn't think corrupted data would change the size of the file or the mtime? If it doesn't then rsync wouldn't overwrite the second drive as it would see it as

I didn't think corrupted data would change the size of the file or the mtime? If it doesn't then rsync wouldn't overwrite the second drive as it would see it as an existing, good copy. Unless you had rsync using checksum comparisons of course.

rahimnathwani 7y ago
You're probably right for corruption caused by hardware failure or filesystem bugs. I was thinking about corruption in the wider sense, e.g. caused by application bugs.