Re: What would cause an unexpected massive transfer

2005-10-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Craig Barratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry Putnam writes: I've rsynced two directory structures back and forth a few times. [snip] The file systems in volved are (xp)NTFS on one end and Fat32 on the external drive. This is the DST problem with how Fat32 represents mtime. Fat32 uses

Re: What would cause an unexpected massive transfer

2005-10-31 Thread Craig Barratt
Harry Putnam writes: Yeah, nice write up. Am I correct in thinking that since I've gone thru the long backup I'm now good till next time change? Yes. Further, if I converted the fs on the external drive to NTFS or create an ext3 partitions, this would never have happened? Yes. Craig --

What would cause an unexpected massive transfer

2005-10-30 Thread Harry Putnam
I've rsynced two directory structures back and forth a few times. Its a desktop to external (portable) drive. And then back once mobile work has changed files and field work is done. On this last go around I expected a few files to be transferred maybe 15-20 but instead I'm seeing several

Re: What would cause an unexpected massive transfer

2005-10-30 Thread Craig Barratt
Harry Putnam writes: I've rsynced two directory structures back and forth a few times. [snip] The file systems in volved are (xp)NTFS on one end and Fat32 on the external drive. This is the DST problem with how Fat32 represents mtime. Fat32 uses localtime, so the unix-derived (UTC) mtime