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> > rsync with a -n (or --dry-run) option will tell you which files it would
> > copy, delete etc. without actually touching anything.
> > 
> This was done last night and found one other bad file in the Bug lists.
> Since rsync doesn't check file contents, just sizes, it won't catch any bit
> errors as occurred in the ftp archive. Since they are almost entirely
> ascii files, I'm not worried about that though.

If you use the --checksum option, rsync will spot bit errors, unless they 
manage to produce the same 128-bit MD4 checksum (not likely)

Cheers, Phil.



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