I usually do my backups via rsync, with
sudo rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded /home/me/ /media/target
The media target is a USB thumb drive.
As far as I understand, thumb drives suffer more aging from writes than from read (therefore, rsync is making them last longer and be more reliable, because is reads the date of creation and only updates in the relevant case)
My questions:
- Is my above understanding correct?
- Are there
rsyncoptions to further optimize the reliability of the USB drive?
I don't know the enough about thumb drive technology to know if there is a general answer, or perhaps the answer is case-by-case?
