Backup Success With New Rsync | Generated by AI
BACKUP COMPLETE!
Final: 56G on Mac Mini (~/macbook-backup/)
projects/ 21G ✓
personal/ 33G ✓ (Pictures 4888/4888 originals)
config/ 12K ✓
shell/ 84K ✓
ssh/ 12K ✓
desktop/ 1.0G ✓
documents/ 120M ✓
joplin/ 33M ✓
openclaw/ 13M ✓
wechat/ 184K ✓
docker/ 8K ✓
maven/ 241M ✓
token/ 4K ✓
The fix was building rsync 3.4.1 from source. The old macOS rsync 2.6.9 was dropping SSH connections every ~5 minutes. With rsync 3.4.1, most transfers completed without drops — Pictures finished in 3 runs vs the 10+ runs it would have taken with 2.6.9.