On 2010-06-09 11:38:51 Paul Slootman wrote: > Placing the new file in the latest image (in the right location!) before > running dirvish should do the job. I suspect that the metadata of the > file differs somehow from the original, getting changed perhaps when > transferring to the USB drive. The attributes that are important are:
This is reassuring (in that it matches my expectations). I'd done some experiments this morning, and have tried wrapping the file up in a tarball (don't know why I didn't think of this yesterday - too much faith in scp -pr I guess). I've now had some success, though I had to change the owner back to the right numeric (one box isn't on LDAP unfortunately) owner, after I untar'd . . . but I'm sure I checked uid/gid yesterday. I'm assuming that mtime is the only time rsync cares about? I might have had a problem, though I don't see how, with TZ's - it's an Ubuntu -> Debian server transfer, but one is set to UTC the other to BST (ie. UTC+1 at the moment). Thanks for the heads up on --numeric-owner / --same-permissions I rarely go more complex than cfz with my tarring, but expect I'll have to start writing some scripts around this stuff. Thanks again for your help. Jedd. _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
