Are you preserving the times? There are many combinations. Me, I always use -a and then add stuff. Copying or Rsyncing windows stuff always seems to have stuff (essential to Linux/Unix) missing from the windows side.
But nothing in that parameter list looks like it would preserve the modification time (or any other time). > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Slootman > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Rsync 2.6.9 does not skip any files based on > modification time > > On Fri 08 Feb 2008, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > > > > I am trying to rsync some ghost images from a windows > client running Windows > > XP to my Linux server. The problem is that rsync sends the > complete files > > again even if nothing changed on the client side. The only > way to avoid this > > is to use the "-c"-option but this takes nearly as long as > uploading the > > files would. > > > > The server is running rsync-2.6.9, /etc/rsyncd.conf looks > as follows. > > /mnt/D/ is a FAT32 partition. > [...] > > used to call rsync from cwrsync.cmd > > rsync -rvvvv --del --modify-window=3 /cygdrive/E/HDD-Abbilder/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]::HDD-Abbilder > > You're correctly using --modify-window, which is otherwise > the probable > solution to your problem. However, somehow rsync still considers an > update necessary. You can use -i (--itemize-changes) to let rsync show > what attributes are incorrect, triggering the update. Once you know > that, you can try to fix it. > > > Paul Slootman > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
