[CentOS] an rsync question

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:34:06 -0500
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> Is there any way to have rsync compare against a file with a *different*
> name?

I think that rsync might overwrite or get confused by your symlinks, regardless
of the actual filenames.

You might be better off using something like md5sum or sha1sum or the like to
compare checksums between your files and then make a new copy or not based on
that result.

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