perhaps using Windows or FAT32 type filesystems?
On 3/30/09, André Hänsel <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > usually I use rsync with -a but recently I used it without this option and > discovered that the same files are synced over and over again (as shown by > -v). Of course the rsync algorithm avoids the traffic but the files are all > listed. > > As soon as I use -a for one time those files are not transferred again, > even > when I remove the -a again. > > So I suspect, when building the file list, rsync doesn't take into account > that it won't be able to transfer some attributes anyway (because of > missing > -a) and tries again to transfer them. > > Is this the desired behaviour? > > This is valid for rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29. > > Regards, > André > > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >
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