Let’s face it. Backups are great, but backup systems are even better. And one great tool for cloning your critical servers is rsync. Whether you clone your file systems to second disks or to entirely ...
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It's time for my semi-annual 'migrate all data to new spindles' excercise. I'm copying about 2 Tb from the old fileserver to a temp drive hung off another box (One Debian, one Ubuntu). I'm using rsync ...
The only thing I can think of is iTunes is modifying those songs. I see you don't have the -E flag in your example so it is not the . files.