On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering whether -avx is what others would use or whether > there's a better set of options.
I think that is the typical rsync backup command set as far as I have ever seen. It should work as you expect it to work. Note that if you use ACLs or extended attributes, you would need to additionally specify -A and/or -X since they are not implied by -a. On a side note, I recently rsync'ed a drive between computers, one running a Live CD and one not, over ssh, and somehow got all my user/groups mixed up (I guess group 20 on one box was X but on another box it was Y). Luckily I was able to identify it and fix it before things got too broken. I'm not entirely sure what I did wrong, to be honest.
