Re: Confused as to why rsync thinks time, owner and group of many files differ

2022-02-07 Thread Wayne Davison via rsync
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 2:23 PM Andy Smith via rsync wrote: > When rsync considers times as being different, it means mtime, right? Yet > these files have identical mtimes. They also have identical uid, gid and > permissions. > They do now, but it looks like you have lots of files hard-linked

Re: Confused as to why rsync thinks time, owner and group of many files differ

2022-02-04 Thread Paul Slootman via rsync
On Thu 03 Feb 2022, Andy Smith via rsync wrote: > sudo rsync -iPva \ > --inplace \ > --numeric-ids \ > --delete \ > /data/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/cacti/ \ > root@koff:/data/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/cacti/ > > ... >5,258 100%5.78kB/s0:00:00 (xfr#1276,

Re: Confused as to why rsync thinks time, owner and group of many files differ

2022-02-03 Thread Dan Stromberg via rsync
On Thu, Feb 3, 2022 at 3:50 PM Andy Smith via rsync wrote: > I am tempted to blow away the btrfs filesystem and just do xfs to > xfs, to rule out weird issues there. It would be a shame though as > I was hoping to use btrfs's compression here. > You might be able to do a partial transfer to a

Re: Confused as to why rsync thinks time, owner and group of many files differ

2022-02-03 Thread Andy Smith via rsync
Hi Kevin, On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 05:38:41PM -0500, Kevin Korb via rsync wrote: > Are you using the same source and target each time? Yes. > I ask because the only discrepancy I see is the link count which > shows that there are 11 more instances of that inode on the source > than the target.

Re: Confused as to why rsync thinks time, owner and group of many files differ

2022-02-03 Thread Kevin Korb via rsync
Are you using the same source and target each time? I ask because the only discrepancy I see is the link count which shows that there are 11 more instances of that inode on the source than the target. Maybe instances in other snapshots are being updated/re-linked? The only other thing to

Confused as to why rsync thinks time, owner and group of many files differ

2022-02-03 Thread Andy Smith via rsync
Hi, I am at the moment using rsync to move quite a big set of backups from one machine to another. The source filesystem is xfs; the target filesystem is btrfs. For various reasons I have been stopping the rsync part way through and re-starting. I have noticed that a large number of files are