I did a backup to a remote NFS folder using rsync, from a Mac to a remote Debian system. The final backup is 58GB less than the original. Rsync says that everything was OK, and there's nothing to update.
Macintosh:/Volumes/Data1 root# du -sh Produccion/
319G Produccion/
root@Disketera:/mnt/soho_storage/samba/shares# du -sh Produccion/
260G Produccion/
Can I trust rsync?
I'm using rsync -av --stats /Volumes/Data1/Produccion/ /mnt/red/
(/mnt/red is my samba mountpoint)
Some different folders:
root@Disketera:/mnt/soho_storage/samba/shares/Produccion/tiposok# du -sh *
0 IndoSanBol
0 IndoSans-Bold
0 IndoSans-Italic
0 IndoSans-Light
0 IndoSans-Regular
40K PalatinoLTStd-Black.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-BlackItalic.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-Bold.otf
44K PalatinoLTStd-BoldItalic.otf
44K PalatinoLTStd-Italic.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-Light.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-LightItalic.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-Medium.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-MediumItalic.otf
56K PalatinoLTStd-Roman.otf
12K TCL IndoSans_mac
Macintosh:/Volumes/Data1/Produccion/tiposok root# du -sh *
36K IndoSanBol
40K IndoSans-Bold
36K IndoSans-Italic
36K IndoSans-Light
36K IndoSans-Regular
40K PalatinoLTStd-Black.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-BlackItalic.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-Bold.otf
44K PalatinoLTStd-BoldItalic.otf
44K PalatinoLTStd-Italic.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-Light.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-LightItalic.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-Medium.otf
40K PalatinoLTStd-MediumItalic.otf
56K PalatinoLTStd-Roman.otf
160K TCL IndoSans_mac