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.

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

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

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