Nathaniel Gray created a testing tool to verify the fidelity of backups; files with multiple streams, extended attributes and ACLs, all the good stuff... Backup Bouncer:
The problem with rsync is that it is ridiculously slow.
IFileOperation (Windows) and FileManager (macOS) will do the most performant copy supported by the underlying FS.
Enabling CRC checks is a checkbox in SMB and ReFS - rsync's content matching step is redundant to a modern SMB share on a modern Windows Server. Windows to Windows, IFileOperation will be like 1.5-8x faster throughput with lower CPU usage than rsync, and maybe 1.2-3x faster than doing a file copy using vanilla golang.
And if you don't care about the operating systems that actually use all the complex filesystem metadata, if you only care about Linux, then you only need openrsync or simpler programs.
I bought a pair of utterly ludicrous Monster stereo speaker cables off eBay a coyotes of decades ago, when I was putting together a home audio system.
Audio stereophile-wise, I could replace them with zip wire (two conductor, twisted 24-gauge cable). But they wouldn't have the neat nylon braided jacket, or shove things out of the way when I'm moving the speakers.
It was stupid but fun to add them to my setup, and now I'm glad I have them.
I also have some interconnect cables from Blue Jeans Cable, that fellow is awesome.
I first saw SheepShaver at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, a commercial product that enabled a Classic Mac environment on PowerPC-based BeOS hardware, the original BeBox.
These days, if you are just curious or want to relive to glory days of Apple's rise and near-death of 1990s, it might be easier to run a hosted environment such as Infinite Mac.
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