On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Robert Citek <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> ...
> >         rsync -avz * salmo:documents/workshop-presentations/nada-talk/
> ...
> >    What rsync syntax error did I commit?
> Sounds like you wanted the --update option:
>  -u, --update                skip files that are newer on the receiver
> rsync -avz --update * ${B}:documents/workshop-presentations/nada-talk/
> Just be careful as this assumes that machines A and B are sync'ed to
> the same time.
>

NTP can be your friend. I've seen huge amounts of borkage because of clock
drift, and some distros that don't enable it by default, so machines are
off by 8-12 hours(!) after only a couple of weeks.

/me glares at SLES

-Ronabop
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