Compare files by checksum instead of size and date
The -c (--checksum) flag makes rsync compare file contents by checksum rather than the default size-and-mtime heuristic. Slower, but it catches files whose timestamps were touched without content changing. Useful when clock skew or timestamp tampering is a concern.
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